A number of recent cases of falls in nursing homes across the country underscore the danger peril in which it places elderly residents, and also the wide scope of the problem. The first report follows a number of incidents at six nursing homes throughout Connecticut, where the state Department of…
A man from Delray Beach is suing a Boca Raton nursing home for negligence, alleging the staff contributed to the untimely death of his 72-year-old mother, who was staying at the facility while recuperating from pneumonia. According to a news report from the local ABC News affiliate, plaintiff asserts his…
The patient was not yet 70. He’d had a stroke and was recovering at a Massachusetts for-profit nursing home. A week after he arrived, staffers dropped him while transferring him from a bed to a chair. Staffers called 911, but canceled the call when he seemed to stabilize. That night,…
A registered nurse and former director of a nursing home care center in New York has pleaded guilty to intentionally acting to cover up sexual abuse and neglect of patients at the center. News reports indicate defendant pleaded guilty to two felony counts of tampering with evidence. The local state…
A $9 million nursing home neglect lawsuit has been filed by a man who alleges the facility staffers repeatedly ignored his pleas of a painful catheter infection until it became so bad, surgeons were ultimately forced to remove his penis. The 60-year-old man alleges the staff at the nursing home…
California’s largest nursing home has grown rapidly in recent years. Now, it’s descent seems equally meteoric. According to media reports with the Sacramento Bee, the entrepreneur who launched the facility is facing not only civil lawsuits, but criminal charges in connection with the treatment of elderly and disabled patients in…
A recent in-depth analysis published by The Boston Globe shows that 6 in 10 nursing homes advertising care specifically for dementia patients may be sidestepping state rules intended to avoid false advertising. A review by the Alzheimer’s Association of Massachusetts and New Hampshire echoes an earlier study conducted by Globe…
Yet another states attorney general has taken aim at a large, for-profit elder nursing care provider, alleging serious neglect that denied patients’ basic needs and also falsification of records and deception of state health officials. This time, it’s in Pennsylvania, with the target being Golden Living, operated by Golden Gate…
A series of nursing home falls suffered by a patient in Minnesota foreshadowed a final, fatal fall from a wheelchair for an elderly resident last year. Now, that nursing home, located in Duluth, has been cited for neglect. According to news reports, the state health department alleges the center failed…
The attorney general’s office in New Mexico has sued one of the country’s largest nursing home chains over allegations of inadequate resident care. The lawsuit asserts ultra-thin staffing levels made it a numeric impossibility for staffers to provide appropriate care to elderly and disabled patients. Preferred Care Partners Management Group…