After years of caring for her husband, Virginia Cole decided it was time to place him in a nursing home. So, on Dec. 8, 2006, Dean Cole was placed in the Golden LivingCenter-Greeley nursing home, in Stillwater, Minnesota. Within 20 days, he lost more than 20 pounds and became agitated and combative. On Dec. 29, [...]

A $2 million lawsuit has been filed against Healthcare at Foster Creek in Portland, Oregon, accusing its staff of failing to protect a 61-year-old woman with dementia from another resident. According to the lawsuit, the woman refused to eat and was prone to episodes of crying for months after a nursing home aide found her [...]

An investigation is under way regarding the death of 95-year-old Fannie Mae Rooks, whose body was found in her wheelchair outside Northgate Park Nursing Home in Florissant, Missouri last Wednesday in the cold and rain. The cause of her death was weather-related, according to the St. Louis County medical examiner’s office, although final autopsy results [...]

Five employees from a Pennsylvania nursing home have been arrested on a variety of charges including neglect, physical assault and harassment of a 94-year-old resident, Thelma Bryant. All employees were from the Kane Regional Hospital which is one of four county-run nursing homes in Allegheny County. The five accused are Danielle Taylor, 46, of [...]

According to a recent police report, an 87-year-old woman was found with a massive head injury on the ground beside an outside loading dock at the Concords Five Oaks Manor Nursing Home, in Concord, North Carolina. So far there are no criminal suspects, but the state is investigating the woman’s death due to the trouble [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released today, a five star nursing home rating system. The system assigns homes one to five stars for quality, staffing and health inspections, plus an overall score.
The scores reflect tens of thousands of inspection records, complaint investigations and quality measures, such as how many nursing staff hours [...]

Two nurses have been fired at the Graceland Care Center in New Albany, Mississippi and have been indicted in a series of patient abuse and drug theft incidents. The announcement from the nursing home came a week after the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office reported that two nurses had been arrested and charged with felonies earlier [...]

According to a Minnesota state health department report released Wednesday, an aide at a Minnesota nursing home was accused of tormenting six residents sexually, physically and emotionally for months before being fired. It’s the second recent investigation of nursing home abuse in the state.
According to the report the female aide abused residents at Luther [...]

Three nursing home employees from two nursing homes in the Western New York region have been arrested and charged, while a fourth individual has been convicted for abusing elderly and ill patients. According to a press release, the acts of abuse include physically attacking and using racial slurs against an 86-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, slapping [...]

When the family of an 84 year old woman realized that their loved one was not being taking care of properly, they decided it was time to take action. The family hid a video camera in the woman’s room after they discovered dozens of bruises all over her body and didn’t get satisfactory answers from [...]