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...
Iowa Nursing Home Cited by State for Resident’s Death from COVID
Iowa Nursing Home Cited by State for Resident’s Death from COVID: Upon investigating the suspected wrongful death of a male resident of Regency Care Center, state inspectors discovered numerous un-investigated nursing home malpractice complaints against the facility....
Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent
Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent: The wrongful death lawsuit brought against Prosperity Pointe, an assisted living and memory care facility in Knox County, claims negligence amounting to nursing home malpractice...
Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice
Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice The Biden administration has released a proposed rule requiring nursing homes to meet a minimum staffing level, a Washington Post article reports. The rule, said Secretary of Health...
North Carolina Nursing Home Failed to Detect Hospitalized Residents’ Serious Health Problems, State Inspection Report Finds
Hospitalized Residents’ Serious Health Problems went Undetected by North Carolina Nursing Home, State Inspection Report Finds The Hunter Woods Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been repeatedly cited for violations amounting to nursing...
Ongoing Nursing Home Malpractice Continues to Violate Veterans’ Rights in New Jersey State-Run Veteran Homes Where COVID-19 Was Permitted to Run Rampant, a DOJ Investigation Reveals
Nursing Home Malpractice Continues to Violate Veterans’ Rights in New Jersey State-Run Veteran Homes The poor care and incidence of nursing home malpractice that allowed two New Jersey veterans homes to fall victim to widespread COVID-19 outbreaks early in the...
Michigan Nursing Home Worker Charged with Abuse and Falsifying Records following Resident’s Choking Death
A Michigan certified nursing assistant allegedly engaged in false charting, a common type of nursing home malpractice, after her alleged negligence contributed to the choking death of a resident in her care. A staff member at a Michigan nursing home has been charged...
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...
Bucks County Nursing Home Administrators Sentenced to Jail for Neglecting to Report Sexual Assault of Three Dementia Patients
Nursing Home Administrators in Bucks County Sentenced to Jail for Neglecting to Report Sexual Assault of Three Dementia Patients: In an egregious act of nursing home malpractice, two former administrators at The Landing of Southampton filed sanitized incident reports...
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 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
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...