Federal investigators stated that more than 90% of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year. In response to this alarming number, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has
A resident of a nursing home died suddenly, at the end of last year. The wife of the victim did not suspect any foul play, until she received a call from the mother of an employee of the nursing home
Medicare has put 10 "reasonably preventable" conditions on its initial list of reasons why it will stop paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their care. Medicare has stated it will not pay when
An amended complaint has been filed by nursing home attorneys in a class action lawsuit against an elder care operator. The original complaint alleges nursing home abuse and neglect in cheating elderly residents and misrepresenting itself to prospective residents. The
Police have charged a man with raping a dying 70-year-old nursing home patient with Alzheimer's disease and a brain tumor. Doctors had determined that the woman has less than six months to live. The man is being held for trial
California's Governor has signed a package of bills that will ensure care facilities for the elderly are prepared during disasters and power outages, provide law enforcement with more tools to ensure criminals who victimize the elderly are prosecuted and further
A report found that a nurse repeatedly told administrators that she feared a coworker was improperly drugging patients to keep them quiet during her shift. The Illinois Department of Public Health report states that the administrators did nothing to stop
A state report issued after there were six mysterious deaths at a Chicago, Illinois nursing home shows that the deaths may not have been mercy killings. The report indicates that the nursing home residents were killed because they were too
Federal Investigators reported that more than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year, and for-profit homes were more likely to have problems than other types of nursing homes. About 17
Statistics show that elder neglect can be hidden, hard to prove and even underreported. A state's Department of Children and Families found that adults make up about 18 percent of their abuse cases. Most of those involved the elderly or
A former nursing home employee pled guilty to first-degree theft of $14,373 from a nursing home. The employee was sentenced to two years, which was suspended, placed on probation for five years, ordered to pay full restitution and fined $500.
A McHenry County, Illinois nursing home was fined nearly $360,000 after regulators alleged that an employee used drug cocktails to ensure residents "would not be bothering her during her shift." These fines were imposed after the Illinois Department of Public
A family is looking for answers after a member of their family was found covered in bruises while she was a patient at the nursing home. The employees of the nursing home informed the family that she was injured when
A report has found that the death of six elderly patients at a nursing home in 2006 may have been the work of a nurse overdosing patients she found to be troublesome or believed had lived long enough. A 130-page
A veteran's family is trying to understand how their father wrongfully died shortly after he arrived at a nursing home. The family states that the nursing home's lack of attention was the issue that finally killed him. The victim, a
An employee of a McHenry County, Illinois nursing home is at the center of an investigation into suspicious deaths is accused of mixing drug cocktails to make sure that troublesome residents "would not be bothering her during her shift." A
In an awful case of elder abuse and neglect, police are reporting that a woman used the credit cards of the elderly woman she was supposed to be caring for days before the woman was found dead in a suitcase.
The deaths of two patients at a nursing home has trigged a state attorney general's investigation and the forced sale or shutting of the facility. It is not known when the deaths at the nursing home occurred or the details
In nursing homes across the countries, employees were hired who had criminal backgrounds for numerous felons. By hiring these employees, the nursing home had placed their patients into a dangerous situation. This reason alone is why the U.S. Senate Finance
A nursing home received a $21,000 fine for violations that led to the wrongful death of one of their patients. The victim died of complications related to dehydration. He had lived at the nursing home for 4 months and the
