A report published in February 2020 entitled “Nursing Home Closures and Trends June 2015-June 2019” found that despite 555 nursing homes in the United States having closed since June 2015, and the increasing number of nursing home closures each year,… Read More
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U.S. Department Of Justice Announces National Nursing Home Initiative
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on March 3, 2020 the launch of the Department of Justice’s National Nursing Home Initiative, which will coordinate and enhance civil and criminal efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to… Read More
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Florida Nursing Home Workers Charged With Duct-Taping Elderly Dementia Resident To Chair
Two workers at a Florida nursing home have been arrested and charged with using duct tape to restrain an elderly resident with dementia to a chair that was then titled backwards against a bed. The two women allegedly involved in… Read More
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98-Year-Old Florida Nursing Home Resident Died After Being Left Outside In The Sun
A 98-year-old Florida nursing home resident who was outside in the hot sun for an unknown period of time on May 27, 2018 was found unresponsive with a temperature of 103.2 degrees. She died two weeks later in the hospital… Read More
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California Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Resident Set On Fire While Smoking
A California nursing home negligence lawsuit filed in mid-April 2018 by the father of a 55-year-old mentally impaired resident who is partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair alleges that the resident was allowed to smoke in an unsafe manner… Read More
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Texas Nursing Home Complaints Spike Since Hurricane Harvey
We have experienced a spike in inquiries regarding Texas nursing home complaints since Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas in late August 2017. Many of the heart-wrenching complaints involve not only the conditions nursing home residents are experiencing since Hurricane… Read More
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$1M South Carolina Nursing Home Settlement For Pain Medication Stolen From Dying Man
A South Carolina nursing home recently agreed to settle nursing home abuse claims that a medical technician who was an employee of the nursing home allegedly stole powerful opioid pain medication (Percocet) prescribed for a 75-year-old resident who was dying a painful… Read More
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Virginia Nursing Home Allegedly Tied Resident To Wheelchair, Injected Her With Sedative
An 84-year-old former resident of a Virginia nursing home, and her daughter, have filed a Virginia nursing home abuse lawsuit in which they allege that two nurses at the defendant nursing home tied the resident to her wheelchair with bed… Read More
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1 In 5 Nursing Home Residents Experience Resident On Resident Abuse
A study published online in The Annals of Internal Medicine on June 14, 2016 found that the prevalence of resident on resident abuse in nursing homes is in excess of one in five, as determined by a one-month observational prevalence period. Such nursing… Read More
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Pennsylvania Nursing Home Worker Charged With Abusing Elderly Resident
A 28-year-old employee of a Pennsylvania nursing home was arrested on May 19, 2016 and charged with misdemeanor criminal charges alleging neglect of care of a dependent person, reckless endangering another person, simple assault, and harassment. The nursing home worker… Read More
