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 [...]

The state Health Department of Oklahoma has cited the Whispering Pines Nursing Center in Norman, Oklahoma, for failing to fully investigate abuse allegations and endangering patients’ health by not providing condoms to a sexually active, HIV-positive nursing home resident. These were just two of the 16 deficiencies cited in a 370-page report released last week.
The [...]

Developed in the 1970’s as a community project to keep elders in their homes, PACE is now caring for more than 16,000 elderly persons nationwide. PACE which stands for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, provides continuous care and services offering individuals eligible for nursing home care the option of continuing to live in [...]

An innovative new motion sensor robot computer system is in development to keep seniors living in their homes longer. The new technology will involve robots scooting from room to room to wake homeowners in the morning, remind them to eat and send for help if someone falls. Also, sensors embedded throughout seniors’ homes will detect [...]

A second round of arrests involving four new workers at The Medford Multicare Center for Living, in Medford, New York were charged yesterday with mistreating patients and falsifying records. According to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office, one resident of the Medford Multicare Center for Living was not showered for a month; an 84-year-old female [...]

The state of New York is expanding a program to keep a high-tech eye on some of the state’s most vulnerable residents based on recommendations of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Recently, an actual video of patient abuse, taken by a hidden camera, showed a nursing home worker slapping a patient. Cuomo used those pictures to [...]