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The FDA is aware that Baxter Healthcare Corporation has issued a letter to affected customers recommending certain Spectrum infusion pumps be removed from where they are used or sold. The…

A West Virginia man was sentenced to three years in prison for not paying the taxes withheld from employees’ wages at an ambulance service he operated and obstructing the IRS’s…

A fire at a Nelson County nursing home early Tuesday morning sent more than a dozen residents to the hospital and displaced dozens of others.

A Missouri nursing home resident was charged with assault after throwing hot coffee at a nurse, damaging items, and verbally assaulting staff on February 28.

An 84-year-old man was charged with murder after he allegedly killed another person at a nursing home in South Carolina on Thursday. Read more here.

Retaining venous catheters poses safety risks, with 80 percent kept beyond antibiotic treatment and nearly one third for over a week in nursing home residents.

A resident at a Miami County, Ohio, nursing home has tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease and is currently being treated at the facility.

Cartons of frozen shakes sold to nursing homes and other institutions are being recalled after an outbreak of listeria linked to the products.

A man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital’s intensive care unit on Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police…