Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent

Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent

Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent: The wrongful death lawsuit brought against Prosperity Pointe, an assisted living and memory care facility in Knox County, claims negligence amounting to nursing home malpractice...
Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice

Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice

Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice The Biden administration has released a proposed rule requiring nursing homes to meet a minimum staffing level, a Washington Post article reports. The rule, said Secretary of Health...

Michigan Nursing Home Worker Charged with Abuse and Falsifying Records following Resident’s Choking Death

A Michigan certified nursing assistant allegedly engaged in false charting, a common type of nursing home malpractice, after her alleged negligence contributed to the choking death of a resident in her care. A staff member at a Michigan nursing home has been charged...
Virginia Nursing Home Employee Charged with Battering Resident with Dementia

Virginia Nursing Home Employee Charged with Battering Resident with Dementia

Battering a Resident with Dementia Charged to Virginia Nursing Home Employee Camera footage reveals a nursing home worker grabbing an elderly resident’s wrists, engaging in verbal abuse, and otherwise committing nursing home malpractice at Brickyard Healthcare in...
Bucks County Nursing Home Administrators Sentenced to Jail for Neglecting to Report Sexual Assault of Three Dementia Patients

Bucks County Nursing Home Administrators Sentenced to Jail for Neglecting to Report Sexual Assault of Three Dementia Patients

Nursing Home Administrators in Bucks County Sentenced to Jail for Neglecting to Report Sexual Assault of Three Dementia Patients:  In an egregious act of nursing home malpractice, two former administrators at The Landing of Southampton filed sanitized incident reports...
Federal Trial Begins for Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records

Federal Trial Begins for Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records: Federal Trial Begins:  Years of Medicaid and Medicare fraud has been alleged at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness and Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness, two...