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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…

Gerry Bedard had never heard of sepsis before his wife, Norma, became fatally ill with the condition five years ago.

Crying and visibly upset, 59-year-old Corinne Damm pleaded no contest to vulnerable adult abuse third degree, per a plea agreement.