Nursing Home Fined after Patient Given Wrong Medications
Several nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health for violations that endangered or injured residents according to reporting by the Connecticut Post’s Connecticut Health I-Team.
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Six nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health for violations that endangered or injured residents.
Read More »Washington Nursing Assistant Charged with Manslaughter
State prosecutors have charged a Lynnwood nursing assistant with manslaughter for an accidental fall at a rehabilitation center that left a frail cancer patient with fatal injuries.
Read More »Michigan Nursing Home Worker Charged with Abusing 91-Year-Old Woman
Security cameras were rolling at the Advantage Living Center as the worker manhandled the 91-year-old resident, according to authorities.
Read More »Virginia Healthcare Facility Faces Wrongful Death Suit
A New Market healthcare facility is preparing to fend off a $1.5 million lawsuit alleging it failed to take adequate care of a resident admitted in February 2018.
Read More »Carbon Monoxide Sends Seven Texas Nursing Home Residents to the Hospital
Seventy-seven residents were evacuated from Helen Greathouse Assisted Living Facility at Manor Park due to carbon monoxide.
Read More »Arizona Nurse Sues Hospital after New Times Story on Medical Pot Ban
Valley ER nurse Timothy Costello is suing one of the biggest hospital systems in Maricopa County for its ban on employee medical marijuana use, just over a week after Phoenix…
Read More »NJ Man Dies after PA Senior Facility Dumps Him in Uber, Suit Claims
The family of a Toms River, New Jersey man has sued a Shohola senior living center, charging that the facility caused his death, after sending him home in a three-hour…
Read More »Buffalo Nursing Home Fined $20,580 after Resident Wanders off Unnoticed
A nursing home owned by Erie County Medical Center was fined $20,580 by the federal government after a cognitively impaired resident with a history of wandering went missing for 100…
Read More »Patient’s Photo Posted on Social Media Not Illegal, Court Rules
A nurse’s aide at a senior care facility in southern Minnesota who posted a photograph of an elderly patient with Alzheimer’s disease on social media with a demeaning and vulgar…
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