Nursing Home Resident Was Hospitalized Following the Assault by a Nurse in Carlisle, Pennsylvania: A resident of a Pennsylvania nursing home became the victim of nursing home malpractice when she was assaulted by a nurse in mid-November, says an abc27 news article....
Murder-Suicide of Elderly Resident and His Wife inside Pennsylvania Nursing Home: A Pennsylvania nursing home resident has died after shooting his wife and turning the gun on himself inside the facility, says an NBC Philadelphia article. In late October at the...
Nursing Home Malpractice in New Jersey Leaves Residents without Food, Hot Water, and a Working Stove for Months, says Health Department: After Medford Care Center in Burlington County was cited for multiple nursing home malpractice violations by state officials,...
Antipsychotics Treat One in Five American Nursing Home Residents with Dementia, not Anti-dementia Drugs, New Study Shows Despite the announcement of a federal crackdown on inappropriate antipsychotics use in nursing homes, more than 20 percent of nursing home...
C. Diff Infections Abound in Nursing Homes, Putting the Vulnerable Elderly at Risk for Illness, Septic Shock, and Death The infection C. diff—Clostridioides difficile—is shockingly common in nursing homes, exposing highly vulnerable residents to serious, deadly...
