Residents of Understaffed Nursing Homes in Disadvantaged Communities More Likely to be Given Inappropriate Antipsychotics, Study Says

Residents of Understaffed Nursing Homes in Disadvantaged Communities More Likely to be Given Inappropriate Antipsychotics, Study Says

Residents of Understaffed Nursing Homes in Disadvantaged Communities More Likely to be Given Inappropriate Antipsychotics, Study Says Giving older adults antipsychotic drugs, especially when they aren’t indicated, can be dangerous, and using them to manage the...
Neglect Allegedly Responsible for the Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident

Neglect Allegedly Responsible for the Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident

Wrongful Bedsore Death of a Massachusetts Nursing Home Resident : Massachusetts’s Hathorne Hill in Danvers has been cited for other recent incidents of nursing home malpractice related to substandard care and conditions that jeopardized the health and safety of the...
Pennsylvania Nursing Home Charged with Wrongful Death of Resident Who Died from Sepsis; Severe Neglect Alleged

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Charged with Wrongful Death of Resident Who Died from Sepsis; Severe Neglect Alleged

Resident Died from Sepsis: Pennsylvania Nursing Home Charged with Wrongful Death and Alleged Severe Neglect  The Old Orchard Health Care Center in Pennsylvania’s Bethlehem Township has been accused of nursing home malpractice in the form of extreme negligence after a...
Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient

Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient

Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient The employee at Indiana’s RiverOaks Health Campus barricaded the door to the room where he had led his elderly victim and was discovered in a state of undress, say investigators of the...

Dementia Residents Subjected to Improper Medication, False Diagnoses, and Neglect at Massachusetts Nursing Home

Dementia Residents Subjected to Improper Medication, False Diagnoses, and Neglect at Massachusetts Nursing Home A host of violations and “appalling” conditions amounting to nursing home malpractice were recently uncovered during an investigation at Bear Mountain...
Nurse Indicted for Falsifying Records and Diverting Narcotics from Nursing Home Patients

Nurse Indicted for Falsifying Records and Diverting Narcotics from Nursing Home Patients

Nurse Indicted for Falsifying Records and Diverting Narcotics from Nursing Home Patients In an act of nursing home malpractice consistent both with false charting and with nursing home medication errors, a nursing home nurse falsified paperwork to divert drugs from...