Massachusetts Nursing Home Shed Fire Quickly Doused
A reported brush fire on March 3 turned into a shed fire, right next to a Weston nursing home.
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Youngstown Physician Indicted for Operating a “Pill Mill” That Distributed Controlled Substances, Including Opioids, and Causing the Deaths of Two Patients
Martin Escobar, age 57, of Youngstown, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury in a 145-count indictment charging the unlawful distribution and dispensation of controlled substances, causing the deaths…
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Virginia Doctor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Distribution of Adderall, Oxycodone
A Fairfax medical doctor pleaded guilty today to illegally diverting Adderall and oxycodone to six different patients, including a patient who suffered from opioid addiction and later died of a…
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Dog Attacks Patient inside Houston Alzheimer Care Facility Twice in One Month
A Houston-area family has filed a lawsuit against a Tomball Alzheimer’s care home, claiming their elderly mother was mauled by the facility’s dog twice in one month.
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Three Nurses Stabbed with Scissors at New York Hospital; Patient Charged
A patient at Ellis Hospital allegedly stabbed three nurses at Ellis Hospital February 27 with medical scissors.
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Older Parkinson’s Patients Often Wrongly Given Antipsychotics, Study Says
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.
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Anxiety Mounts among US Health Workers on the Front Lines of Coronavirus Outbreak
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…
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Legionella at Ohio Nursing Home Not Revealed until after 90-Year-Old Checked In, Family Says
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…
Read More »Residents Returned to New York Nursing Home after Carbon Monoxide Leak
Most residents of a Carthage nursing home returned to the facility Sunday afternoon, after a carbon monoxide leak forced their evacuation Sunday morning.
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Woman Sues over Alleged Nursing Home Abuse
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.
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