New Jersey Doctor Described as ‘Candy Man’ and ‘El Chapo Of Opioids’ Admits Distributing Opioids to Patients
A Bergen County doctor admitted distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason and falsifying medical records to cover it up. Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in…
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Virginia Pain Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Prescribing Opiates
Dr. Zeljko Stjepanovic, 59, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for unlawfully prescribing Oxycodone and Tramadol to patients at a Richmond-area pain management practice. According to court documents, Stjepanovic…
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Kaiser Permanente Agrees to Settle Americans with Disabilities Act Claims and to Improve Access for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Patients
Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide a qualified sign…
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Police locate man, 87, who walked away from Massachusetts Nursing Home
Police have located the 87-year-old man who sparked a search early Monday morning after he went missing from a nursing home in Weymouth overnight.
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Ohio Nursing Home Employee Sentenced for 98-Year-Old Patient’s Fatal Fall
A Lucas County Common Pleas Court judge described a 98-year-old woman who lived in an Oregon nursing home as “spunky” and someone whose life was cut short by an unintentional…
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Elderly Woman Claims She Was Sexually Assaulted by Little Rock Nursing Home Nurse
According to a police report, an 89-year-old resident at Briarwood Nursing and Rehabilitation, Inc. told officers a male nurse touched her inappropriately.
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Bond Set for Woman Accused of Posing as Nurse at Ohio Nursing Home
A woman accused of stealing someone’s identity to work in a local nursing home/senior rehabilitation facility appeared in front of a judge February 21 to answer to criminal charges.
Read More »Connecticut Hospital Sued over Patient’s Suicide
The family of a popular New Milford music teacher who died by suicide at Waterbury Hospital last March has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital.
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Vermont Settles Allegations of Neglect and False Claims with Three Genesis Healthcare Nursing Homes
Attorney General T.J. Donovan announced a settlement with three Genesis Healthcare subsidiary-operated nursing homes in Vermont — Burlington Health & Rehab, St. Johnsbury Health & Rehab, and Berlin Health &…
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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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