Robot Assistant to Improve Elderly Care in Nursing Homes
Overworked care staff in nursing homes and hospitals may soon have their workload reduced with the help of a Social & Autonomous Robotic health Assistant (SARA), an innovation supported by…
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Three Women Accused of Encouraging, Filming Fights at North Carolina Assisted Living Facility
Three workers at an assisted living facility were arrested after police say they encouraged the residents to fight each other and allegedly abused two elderly women with cognitive disabilities.
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New Hampshire Man Accused of Breaking into Nursing Home Garage, Crashing Stolen Truck through Door
A 54-year-old man was accused of breaking into a former gas station, which is now part of a nursing home, and then taking a truck and crashing it through the…
Read More »Maggots on New York Nursing Home Resident’s Foot
Krysten Schmidt has been a nurse for 25 years and last week, when she went to visit her 89-year-old grandmother at Premier Genesee nursing home, she saw something she had…
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Patient Injured after Car Drives into North Carolina Doctor’s Office
Police say a patient was injured September 27 when a car accidentally accelerated through the front entrance of a medical office around 1 p.m.
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Former Utah nurse pleads guilty to stealing painkillers and infecting seven patients with hepatitis C
A former Utah nurse pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges, admitting that she stole hospital painkillers and infected seven patients with a rare strain of hepatitis C.
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112-Year-Old White Sox Fan Celebrates His Birthday by Attending His Very First Game
A Lansing, Illinois-based man named CP Crawford celebrated turning 112 years old on Aug. 25 with a trip to Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago to take in his first in-person…
Read More »Vietnam Vet Dies after Mass Ant Attack in Nursing Home Bed
A Vietnam War veteran was bitten more than 100 times all over his body by ants while he lay in poor health in his bed on the campus of an Atlanta Veteran Affairs hospital…
Read More »Illinois Nursing Home Brawl Leads to Domestic Battery Charge
A 30-year-old woman was arrested at a nursing home and charged with domestic battery and criminal damage to property after officers arrived to find her rolling around the hallway with…
Read More »Former Georgia hospital director of security indicted for federal fraud and gun charges
Russell Richardson, the former Director of Security for DeKalb Medical Center, has been charged with stealing firearms meant for security personnel and then illegally selling those guns for profit. Between…
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