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Texas Federal Judge Rules People With Disabilities Are Illegally Being Kept In Nursing Homes

August 8, 2025

A federal judge in Texas stated in his 475-page Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law filed on June 19, 2025: “Integration is fundamental to the purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Provision of segregated accommodations and services relegates persons with disabilities to second[...]

Elder Abuse In The United States (Including Nursing Home Abuse)

June 1, 2024

A report issued in March 2024 by SeniorLiving.org entitled “Elder Abuse Statistics for 2024” stated: “Reports from nursing home workers indicate that two in three caregivers committed abuse within a one-year period (elder abuse is defined by the National Center on Elder Abuse as a[...]

New York Sues Owners/Operators Of Four Nursing Homes For Financial Fraud/Resident Neglect

November 7, 2023

The New York Attorney General announced on June 28, 2023 a lawsuit filed against the owners, operators, and landlords of four nursing homes. The lawsuit alleges years of repeated and persistent fraud and illegally misusing more than $83 million in taxpayer money that resulted in significant resident[...]

Nursing Home Closures Statistics

July 21, 2020

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, nursing home occupancy rates have dec[...]

U.S. Department Of Justice Announces National Nursing Home Initiative

June 7, 2020

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 their residents, focusing on some of t[...]

Florida Nursing Home Workers Charged With Duct-Taping Elderly Dementia Resident To Chair

September 7, 2018

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 the July 3, 2018 incident are charged with elder abuse and false impris[...]

98-Year-Old Florida Nursing Home Resident Died After Being Left Outside In The Sun

June 11, 2018

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 from hyperthermia caused by exposure to the sun. An investigation by the Flori[...]

California Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Resident Set On Fire While Smoking

May 5, 2018

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 which led to him being found engulfed in flames wh[...]

Texas Nursing Home Complaints Spike Since Hurricane Harvey

September 13, 2017

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 Harvey barreled throug[...]

$1M South Carolina Nursing Home Settlement For Pain Medication Stolen From Dying Man

July 15, 2017

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 death from pancreatic cancer,[...]

Virginia Nursing Home Allegedly Tied Resident To Wheelchair, Injected Her With Sedative

January 20, 2017

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 sheets and then injected her with narcotic sedatives to keep h[...]

1 In 5 Nursing Home Residents Experience Resident On Resident Abuse

June 19, 2016

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 home abuse includes psychological abuse, ph[...]

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