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A patient at Ellis Hospital allegedly stabbed three nurses at Ellis Hospital February 27 with medical scissors.

More than one-third of older people with Parkinson’s disease in long-term care who experienced therapy-related psychosis were prescribed antipsychotic medications considered inappropriate under current guidelines, a study found.

Doctors and nurses say they are alarmed by reports that multiple health workers in the United States have been sickened by a deadly coronavirus and that hospitals and other healthcare…

A nursing home in Ohio with three confirmed cases of Legionnaires bacteria since October did not disclose the cases at check-in, says a resident’s family, despite recent diagnosis and an…

Most residents of a Carthage nursing home returned to the facility Sunday afternoon, after a carbon monoxide leak forced their evacuation Sunday morning.

The elderly woman who was allegedly abused by a nursing home aide has filed a lawsuit against the caretaker as well as the Allied Services Meade Street Skilled Nursing facility.

In a closely watched case, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday that a relative of a nursing home resident who died from possible neglect cannot file a wrongful death lawsuit…

Residents at a southwest Oklahoma City nursing home can now sleep peacefully after a terrifying situation involving a former employee.

Billy Chemirmir, a man accused of smothering more than a dozen women living in North Texas retirement homes and robbing them of their jewelry, has been indicted on two additional…