CT Nursing Home Cited for Sexual Assault
Six nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health for violations that endangered or injured residents.
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Washington Nursing Assistant Charged with Manslaughter
State prosecutors have charged a Lynnwood nursing assistant with manslaughter for an accidental fall at a rehabilitation center that left a frail cancer patient with fatal injuries.
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FDA Takes Action with Indian Government to Protect Consumers from Illicit Medical Products
The US Food and Drug Administration announced that its first bilateral enforcement operation with the Government of India, stopped approximately 500 shipments of illicit, and potentially dangerous, unapproved prescription drugs…
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Virginia Healthcare Facility Faces Wrongful Death Suit
A New Market healthcare facility is preparing to fend off a $1.5 million lawsuit alleging it failed to take adequate care of a resident admitted in February 2018.
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Wrongful Death Lawsuit against State Representative and Her Company Settles out of Court
A wrongful death case brought against a Washington state representative and her senior care business has settled out of court.
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Fire Safety and Evacuation Plans for Senior Care Facilities
In the small hours of September 25, 2003, a fire broke out on the second floor of the NHC Healthcare Center nursing home in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Carbon Monoxide Sends Seven Texas Nursing Home Residents to the Hospital
Seventy-seven residents were evacuated from Helen Greathouse Assisted Living Facility at Manor Park due to carbon monoxide.
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Family Members Are Swiping Hospice Patients’ Painkillers: Study
A new study finds family members often steal painkillers from dying relatives in hospice care.
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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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