Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient

Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient

Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient The employee at Indiana’s RiverOaks Health Campus barricaded the door to the room where he had led his elderly victim and was discovered in a state of undress, say investigators of the...

Dementia Residents Subjected to Improper Medication, False Diagnoses, and Neglect at Massachusetts Nursing Home

Dementia Residents Subjected to Improper Medication, False Diagnoses, and Neglect at Massachusetts Nursing Home A host of violations and “appalling” conditions amounting to nursing home malpractice were recently uncovered during an investigation at Bear Mountain...
Nurse Indicted for Falsifying Records and Diverting Narcotics from Nursing Home Patients

Nurse Indicted for Falsifying Records and Diverting Narcotics from Nursing Home Patients

Nurse Indicted for Falsifying Records and Diverting Narcotics from Nursing Home Patients In an act of nursing home malpractice consistent both with false charting and with nursing home medication errors, a nursing home nurse falsified paperwork to divert drugs from...
Nursing Home Fined for Regulatory Violations after a Falling Incident Leads to a Resident’s Death

Nursing Home Fined for Regulatory Violations after a Falling Incident Leads to a Resident’s Death

Nursing Home Fined for Regulatory Violations after a Falling Incident Leads to a Resident’s Death Three deaths in three years have resulted in state citations against Iowa’s Northridge Village, indicative of the occurrence of nursing home malpractice as well as...
Nurse Criminally Charged in Nursing Home Resident’s Respiratory Death

Nurse Criminally Charged in Nursing Home Resident’s Respiratory Death

Nurse Criminally Charged in Nursing Home Resident’s Respiratory Death The licensed practical nurse, a temp working at Fonda Specialty Care nursing home in Iowa, has been accused of nursing home malpractice in the form of felony wanton neglect after failing to assist a...
New Jersey Intends to Suspend Two Nursing Homes from Medicaid after Evidence of Fraud and Nursing Home Malpractice

New Jersey Intends to Suspend Two Nursing Homes from Medicaid after Evidence of Fraud and Nursing Home Malpractice

Evidence of Fraud and Nursing Home Malpractice Leads New Jersey to Suspend Two Nursing Homes from Medicaid: In the wake of a New York lawsuit alleging their owners took millions in Medicare funds from their New York nursing homes to enrich themselves, New Jersey has...