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...
Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat 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...
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...
Federal Trial Begins for Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records

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 Nursing Home Faces Multiple Violations after Video Captures 87-year-old Resident Falling Face-first from Wheelchair

Illinois Nursing Home Faces Multiple Violations after Video Captures 87-year-old Resident Falling Face-first from Wheelchair

Illinois Nursing Home Faces Multiple Violations after Video Captures 87-year-old Resident Falling Face-first from Wheelchair: Subsequent to this falling incident, this Illinois nursing home, during a transfer of ownership, further subjected its residents to nursing...
Scarcity of Nursing Home Beds Strands Elderly Seniors for Months at Hospitals, Leaving Them Prone to Infection, Delirium, and Premature Death

Scarcity of Nursing Home Beds Strands Elderly Seniors for Months at Hospitals, Leaving Them Prone to Infection, Delirium, and Premature Death

Seniors Stranded in Hospitals for Months due to Scarcity of Nursing Home Beds, Leaving Them Prone to Infection, Delirium, and Premature Death American nursing home beds are rapidly disappearing, leaving seniors stranded in hospitals where they are vulnerable to a host...