Resident Bleeds to Death at Iowa Nursing Home with a Record of Violations

Resident Bleeds to Death at Iowa Nursing Home with a Record of Violations

Resident Bleeds to Death at Iowa Nursing Home with a Record of Violations: Arbor Court, a one-star Iowa care facility, potentially faces fines from the federal government for the latest in a series of nursing home malpractice incidents. An inspection follows after a...
Two New Jersey Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults

Two New Jersey Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults

Two Dementia Patients Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults in New Jersey Nursing Home: Investigations are underway at two nursing homes in Central Jersey where violent resident-on-resident attacks led to the deaths of two 91-year-olds in January, says an article on...
Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use

Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use

Federal Government Targets Nursing Homes for Alleged Inappropriate Antipsychotic Drugs Use: CMS has announced it will conduct investigations into certain nursing homes in an effort to uncover illegitimate schizophrenia diagnoses and any accompanying inappropriate...
New York Attorney General Sues Nursing Home for Years of Fraud and Resident Neglect

New York Attorney General Sues Nursing Home for Years of Fraud and Resident Neglect

Nursing Home Sued for Years of Fraud and Resident Neglect: The lawsuit alleges that the owners of Cold Spring Hills diverted of tens of millions of dollars of government funding while engaging in repeated incidents of nursing home malpractice and slashing staffing to...
Nursing Homes Are Increasingly Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia

Nursing Homes Are Increasingly Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia

Nursing Homes Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia: A new government study indicates that anti-seizure medications usually reserved for epilepsy patients are increasingly being used by nursing homes to sedate dementia patients, says a...
Wrongful Death of a Philadelphia Nursing Home Resident Involved Paper Lodged in Her Windpipe

Wrongful Death of a Philadelphia Nursing Home Resident Involved Paper Lodged in Her Windpipe

Nursing Home Resident Victim to Wrongful Death in Philadelphia: The mother of a woman with disabilities who died after a paper towel or disinfecting wipe was found in her trachea has secured a wrongful death attorney in her lawsuit against the Philadelphia nursing...