Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes

Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes

Resident-on-Resident Attacks on the Rise in New Jersey Nursing Homes: With the increased number of residents with dementia in New Jersey nursing homes corresponds a growth in occurrences of resident-on-resident nursing home abuse. According to a NJ Advance Media...
Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents

Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents

Proposed Bill Seeks to Prevent New Jersey Nursing Homes from Financially Victimizing Residents: New legislation has been introduced to prevent New Jersey nursing homes, or any entities associated with these homes, from managing residents’ financial affairs without a...
Two New Jersey Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults

Two New Jersey Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults

Two Dementia Patients Die Following Brutal Resident Assaults in New Jersey Nursing Home: Investigations are underway at two nursing homes in Central Jersey where violent resident-on-resident attacks led to the deaths of two 91-year-olds in January, says an article on...
Decades of Nursing Home Neglect Incite Plans for Federal Staffing Minimums

Decades of Nursing Home Neglect Incite Plans for Federal Staffing Minimums

Nursing Home Neglect Incites Plans for Federal Staffing Minimums: Decades of evidence shows that insufficient staffing leads to a higher occurrence of nursing home neglect, poor care, and other evidence of nursing home malpractice. The Biden Administration is...
Nursing Home SWAT Team Descends on Deficient New Jersey Veterans Home

Nursing Home SWAT Team Descends on Deficient New Jersey Veterans Home

Nursing Home SWAT Team Descends on Veterans Home: Following an inspection that revealed residents of a New Jersey veterans home were in “immediate jeopardy,” a team of “mission-critical” long-term care professionals was sent by the Gov. Phil Murphy administration to...
The Worst Nursing Homes in New Jersey Are Not Improving, Says Report

The Worst Nursing Homes in New Jersey Are Not Improving, Says Report

The Worst Nursing Homes in New Jersey Are Not Improving: Many of the New Jersey nursing homes ranked as the worst in the state have failed to improve their quality of care more than half a year since being told they need to improve or shut down, according to an...