Ex-Employee Sues Massachusetts Nursing Home over Termination
A former nursing assistant at the Center for Extended Care at Amherst has sued the nursing home for wrongful termination after she was fired days after raising concerns over the…
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Man Accused in Baton Rouge Nurse’s Death Suffers from Dementia, Schizophrenia, Brain Damage
A Lake Charles man accused in the April 11 death of a Baton Rouge nurse whom he allegedly attacked in a hospital a week earlier suffers from dementia, schizophrenia and…
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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…
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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…
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Seventy-Year-Old Woman Sexually Assaulted at California Assisted Living Facility
Police Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting a 70-year-old woman at an assisted living facility in Carlsbad.
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MA Vendor Charged with Defrauding VA Hospitals by Failing to Inspect Medical Gas Systems
Chester Wojcik, 49, a vendor for several Veterans Affairs medical facilities was charged in connection with a scheme to profit by billing for, but failing to perform, critical medical gas…
Read More »Missouri Nursing Home Residents Hospitalized after Violent Assault
Two nursing home residents are hospitalized following a violent assault.
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The Effects of the Opioid Crisis on Long-Term Care Residents – Points of Advocacy
The Effects of the Opioid Crisis on Long-Term Care Residents – Points of Advocacy Opioid misuse and abuse has become a national epidemic. Yet opioid use in long-term care settings…
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State Investigating Deadly Stabbing at Virginia Nursing Home
The Virginia Department of Health has launched an investigation into the brutal death of a patient at a Richmond nursing home and rehabilitation center.
Read More »Arrest Made in Connection with Nursing Home Homicide of 95-Year-Old Man
A 47-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the homicide of a 95-year-old man last month at Tiffany Hall Nursing & Rehab Center, according to records and a prosecutor…
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