Neglect Allegedly Responsible for the Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident
Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident : Massachusetts’s Hathorne Hill in Danvers has been cited for other recent incidents of nursing home malpractice related to substandard care and conditions that jeopardized the health and safety of the...
Pennsylvania Nursing Home Charged with Wrongful Death of Resident Who Died from Sepsis; Severe Neglect Alleged
Resident Died from Sepsis: Pennsylvania Nursing Home Charged with Wrongful Death and Alleged Severe Neglect The Old Orchard Health Care Center in Pennsylvania’s Bethlehem Township has been accused of nursing home malpractice in the form of extreme negligence after a...
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 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 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 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...
As Covid Continues to Kill Nursing Home Residents, the Majority Go without the Latest Shot
Covid Continues to Kill Nursing Home Residents, yet the Majority Go without the Latest Shot After Covid-19 ravaged American nursing homes in the height of the pandemic, getting vaccinations for the vulnerable elderly was a top priority. Now nursing home residents...
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...