Virginia Nursing Home Employee Charged with Battering Resident with Dementia

Virginia Nursing Home Employee Charged with Battering Resident with Dementia

Battering a Resident with Dementia Charged to Virginia Nursing Home Employee Camera footage reveals a nursing home worker grabbing an elderly resident’s wrists, engaging in verbal abuse, and otherwise committing nursing home malpractice at Brickyard Healthcare in...
Federal Trial Begins for Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records

Federal Trial Begins for Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records: Federal Trial Begins:  Years of Medicaid and Medicare fraud has been alleged at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness and Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness, two...
Illinois Nurse Federally Indicted for Diluting Nursing Home Patient’s Morphine

Illinois Nurse Federally Indicted for Diluting Nursing Home Patient’s Morphine

Illinois Nurse Federally Indicted for Diluting Nursing Home Patient’s Morphine In a gross act of nursing home malpractice, a registered nurse allegedly took an Illinois nursing home patient’s morphine and attempted to conceal this act by swapping the prescribed...
Illinois Nursing Home Faces Multiple Violations after Video Captures 87-year-old Resident Falling Face-first from Wheelchair

Illinois Nursing Home Faces Multiple Violations after Video Captures 87-year-old Resident Falling Face-first from Wheelchair

Illinois Nursing Home Faces Multiple Violations after Video Captures 87-year-old Resident Falling Face-first from Wheelchair: Subsequent to this falling incident, this Illinois nursing home, during a transfer of ownership, further subjected its residents to nursing...
Now-shuttered Iowa Nursing Home Sued for Abuse, Breach of Contract, and Wrongful Death

Now-shuttered Iowa Nursing Home Sued for Abuse, Breach of Contract, and Wrongful Death

Iowa Nursing Home Sued for Abuse, Breach of Contract, and Wrongful Death A nursing home malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a shut-down Iowa nursing home and its former corporate owners in the wake of the death of one of its residents, says an Iowa Capital...
Nursing Home Oversight Crisis Puts Residents at Risk

Nursing Home Oversight Crisis Puts Residents at Risk

Staffing Shortages in Nursing Homes Put Residents at Risk: After decades of underfunding, state survey agencies are experiencing serious staffing shortages that have impaired nursing home inspections and left residents vulnerable to nursing home malpractice, says a...