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An active–shooter training exercise at an Indiana elementary school in January left teachers with welts, bruises, and abrasions after they were shot with plastic pellets by the local sheriff’s office…

Oak Park, Mich.— An unlicensed man is accused of handling injections for his 84-year-old father and using non-sterile needles at a pain clinic in Oak Park, according to FBI agents.

An Illinois prison inmate pleaded guilty to federal charges and admitted using fake nursing and educational credentials to work at three healthcare facilities.

Swedish municipalities plan to start 3D-printing at care homes for the elderly, stimulating residents’ appetites by making puréed food look like the real thing.

A nursing home employee was arrested for making two prank 911 calls — on a dare from a co-worker — warning of an explosive device at a Leesburg facility, according…

Casa Grande, Ariz. — Doctors and nurses say they witnessed a miracle in Pinal County when one of their patients with Parkinson’s who had not walked for years, stood up…

A man expressed his undying love at the Arizona nursing facility where his girlfriend works with a staged proposal.

When a bingo-related dispute heated up at a long-term care facility in Rideau Lakes, Ont., Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers had to be called in.

After stomping a fellow resident (Resident 1) nearly to death, Resident 2 grabbed a registered nurse by her hair and started swinging her around the room. “I’m going to die,”…

A Colorado nursing home changed its background check process after one of its now-former employees, who’s accused of beating an elderly Alzheimer’s resident, was shown to be a convicted felon.