Virginia Nursing Home Employee Charged with Battering Resident with Dementia

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

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...
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...
Nursing Home Oversight Crisis Puts Residents at Risk

Nursing Home Oversight Crisis Puts Residents at Risk

Staffing Shortages in Nursing Homes Put Residents at Risk: After decades of underfunding, state survey agencies are experiencing serious staffing shortages that have impaired nursing home inspections and left residents vulnerable to nursing home malpractice, says a...
Nursing Homes are Failing to Report Falls and Bedsores

Nursing Homes are Failing to Report Falls and Bedsores

Nursing Homes are Failing to Report Falls and Bedsores: A recent study shows that nursing homes are underreporting serious falls and bedsores, top indicators of nursing home malpractice. According to a U.S. News & World Report article, a study indicates that U.S....