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$12 Million Settlement And Reforms At Syracuse Nursing Home Intended To Stop Resident Neglect And Financial Fraud

October 15, 2025

On August 25, 2025, the New York Attorney General announced that Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Syracuse, New York, and its owners and operators will pay a total of $12 million, including $10 million to directly fund improved resident care and staffing, after an investigation alle[...]

$45M Settlement For New York Nursing Homes Fraud, Neglect

January 13, 2025

New York’s Attorney General announced on November 14, 2024 a settlement with four New York nursing homes managed by Centers for Care, LLC (“Centers”) that will require them to pay $45 million and address years of resident mistreatment and neglect. The Office of the Attorney General[...]

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[...]

3 Ohio Nursing Home Aides Indicted For Resident’s Death

May 21, 2018

Earlier this month, an Ohio grand jury indicted three nursing home aides in connection with the death of an elderly resident who wandered off from the nursing home where the aides worked. Four employees of the nursing home were terminated after the incident. The 76-year-old nursing home resident had[...]

Georgia Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit Alleges Resident Eaten Alive By Scabies

May 9, 2018

The family of a 93-year-old Georgia nursing home resident alleges in their nursing home neglect lawsuit that the resident was “eaten alive” by scabies over the course of months or years, causing her gruesome and painful death in 2015. The resident had moved into the Georgia nursing home [...]

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[...]

$5M Paid To U.S. By Texas Nursing Home For Alleged Worthless Nursing Home Services

November 24, 2017

The U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas, announced on October 19, 2017 that Health Services Management Inc. (“HSM”) has paid the United States and the State of Texas $5 million to resolve claims that it billed the Medicare and Medicaid program[...]

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[...]

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[...]

17 Former Nursing Home Workers Sentenced After Guilty Pleas Arising Out Of Nursing Home Neglect

February 12, 2015

The last of 17 former Buffalo, New York nursing home workers have been sentenced after pleading guilty to charges arising out of the neglect of a 56-year-old resident who was totally dependent on their care. The felony charges against them were reduced to misdemeanor charges and only one former nurs[...]

Iowa Nursing Home Negligence Case Alleges Resident Treated Like An Animal

September 9, 2014

When the daughter of a 74-year-old Iowa nursing home resident visited her mother early last month after receiving a telephone call from the nursing home the night before that her mother was restless, screaming, and they did not know what to do, she immediately heard her mother screaming from her [...]

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