Staff Requirements are Falling Short for Most Pennsylvania and New Jersey Nursing Homes, Says Analysis In 2026, federal staffing minimums will be implemented in an effort to address staffing shortages that contribute to incidences of nursing home malpractice. Few...
Missing Elderly Woman Who Wandered from Pennsylvania Nursing Home Found Dead An elderly woman who wandered from her Pennsylvania nursing home last month was found dead the day after she was reported missing, says an NBC Philadelphia article. On Monday, July 8,...
New Jersey Nursing Home Residents Sue for Negligence, Hardship, and Wrongful Death after Home Closes without Notice For months before the sudden shutdown, red flags about Princeton Care Center were apparent, including staffing shortages, unpaid bills, and poor ratings...
Pennsylvania Nurse Charged with Multiple Nursing Home Murders Gets Life in Prison The Pennsylvania nurse who gave high—and in many cases, lethal—doses of insulin to several of her patients has pled guilty to three counts of murder as well as other charges and received...
Residents of Understaffed Nursing Homes in Disadvantaged Communities More Likely to be Given Inappropriate Antipsychotics, Study Says Giving older adults antipsychotic drugs, especially when they aren’t indicated, can be dangerous, and using them to manage the...
Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident : Massachusetts’s Hathorne Hill in Danvers has been cited for other recent incidents of nursing home malpractice related to substandard care and conditions that jeopardized the health and safety of the...
