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...
A Shocking Number of Assisted Living Residents Wander off Unnoticed; Many Die

A Shocking Number of Assisted Living Residents Wander off Unnoticed; Many Die

Assisted Living Residents Wander off Unnoticed; Many Die: Elopement, the event of a resident leaving his or her facility undetected and unsupervised, is a surprisingly common occurrence of nursing home malpractice in American assisted living facilities. Elopement all...
Missouri Nursing Home Resident Dies after Being Left outside Alone in the Heat

Missouri Nursing Home Resident Dies after Being Left outside Alone in the Heat

Nursing Home Resident Dies after Being Left outside Alone: A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Liberty Health and Wellness, a Kansas City nursing home so plagued with nursing home malpractice issues that it has been named a federal Special Focus Facility...
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...
Scarcity of Nursing Home Beds Strands Elderly Seniors for Months at Hospitals, Leaving Them Prone to Infection, Delirium, and Premature Death

Scarcity of Nursing Home Beds Strands Elderly Seniors for Months at Hospitals, Leaving Them Prone to Infection, Delirium, and Premature Death

Seniors Stranded in Hospitals for Months due to Scarcity of Nursing Home Beds, Leaving Them Prone to Infection, Delirium, and Premature Death American nursing home beds are rapidly disappearing, leaving seniors stranded in hospitals where they are vulnerable to a host...