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The family of an Albany woman who died after allegedly contracting scabies at a Eugene nursing home is seeking up to $1.2 million in a wrongful death, negligence lawsuit.

The US Attorney’s Office reached an agreement with Athena Health Care Systems (Athena), operator of 16 skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts, to resolve allegations that they violated the Americans with…

Prosecutors have formally charged four ex-employees of a Florida nursing home where a power outage after a hurricane led to 12 residents’ deaths.

Kettering police are investigating an alleged sexual assault of a paralyzed patient at the Heartland of Kettering nursing facility.

The outpatient area of C.R. Wood Cancer Center at Glens Falls Hospital was “restricted” September 13 because of bedbug contamination.

Raymond Leiendecker, 45, is in custody after authorities said he crashed his pickup truck into an Ohio hospital September 13, killing an employee.

The Office of Michigan Attorney General filed objections in a St. Clair County probate case after Lisa Tramski, a nursing home leasing agent who became a guardian, convinced an 85-year-old…

A year after an 84-year-old man wandered away, never to be seen again, from an assisted living facility in New Hampshire, his two daughters have sued.

An East Hartford woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of her late husband against Manchester-based nursing home and rehabilitation center Westside Care Center.

A group of Kennewick, Washington, seniors could be the latest targets of a new type of Medicare fraud.