Robot Moves into TX Assisted Living Center, Serves Residents Meals amid Worker Shortage
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are dealing with a staffing crisis. There just aren’t enough people who want to work in those facilities, so how are the centers filling…
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NC Nursing Home Resident Likely Ate a Mouse, Inspection Finds
Workers at a nursing home in Salisbury, North Carolina, thought they saw a man with severe cognitive disabilities grab a mouse out of the trash and then swallow the rodent,…
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Washington State Nurse Accused of Being Imposter for over a Decade
A Seattle nurse opened a letter from the Internal Revenue Service which said he had a tax debt for underreported income at nursing homes around Puget Sound, but he had…
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Missouri Hospital to Give Staff Panic Buttons to Protect Them from Violent Patients
A Missouri hospital will be equipping its staff with panic buttons to protect them from violent patients following a startling rise in assaults, administrators said.
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Miami Hospital Nurse Posts Disturbing Photos, Captions of NICU Baby on Social Media
A Jackson Health System employee is on administrative leave following disturbing posts on social media that appear to mock a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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Florida ER doctor ousted from hospital after promoting $50 mask opt-out letters
An emergency room physician who charged $50 for opt-out letters to Leon County parents who don’t want their kids to wear masks in school has been removed from Capital Regional…
Read More »A Golden Retriever Is Beating PCR Tests at Detecting COVID in a French Nursing Home
Just a month after beginning his training in the detection of COVID-19, Pokaa the golden retriever has taken up his post in a nursing home in the eastern Alsace region…
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68-Year-Old Man Missing after Dramatic Escape from NY Nursing Home
Police are investigating after a resident of a Queens nursing home made a dramatic escape reportedly using a makeshift rope, possibly out of plastic bags tied together, to lower himself…
Read More »5 people, including 4 nurses, injured in single incident at Massachusetts hospital
Five people, including four nurses were recently injured in a single incident involving a patient at one of Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s behavioral health units.
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Gunman Hijacks Ambulance in Houston with Patient Inside
A man faces multiple charges after police said he hijacked an ambulance at gunpoint July 23 with a patient and emergency medical technician inside.
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