In Rockford, Illinois, nursing home competition is fierce, but it can lead to abuse or neglect. Rockford is considered “overbedded” due to an overabundance of nursing care and rehabilitation beds. The average occupancy rate in...
Elmer Huntsman was admitted to Elmwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on August 26, 2008. Huntsman was required to sleep with a continuous positive airway pressure system device (CPAP), which forced air into his lungs and...
On August 8, 2010, one hundred year old Dorothy Butler was taken to Middle Tennessee Medical Center Emergency Department suffering from severe hemorrhaging, four broken ribs, and “two pressure sores and bruising”. The cause of...
Almore, a registered nurse employed at Britthaven of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, reportedly gave a dose of unprescribed morphine to 84 year-old Rachel Holliday, an Alzheimer’s resident who later died. The medical examiner attributed...
Angela Broihahn, a former Wisconsin nursing home aide, was charged with six counts of patient abuse, one count of attempted nursing home patient abuse, and four counts of possession of narcotic drugs in connection to...
Some studies have shows that 35 to 85 percent of nursing home residents are malnourished. The causes vary as to why so many nursing home residents suffer from malnourishment. In most cases, the cause of...
Westridge Pinnacle Care is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General after the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services found a “threat to the health and safety of the residents”...
Fifty-six year old Jessie Joiner, a nurse at William Benenson Rehabilitation Pavilion in Queens, New York, was seen pushing a medication cart on March 20, 2010 around 9:00 p.m. when she suddenly left her cart...
The women were roommates at Creekside Health Care Center, a nursing home located in San Pablo, California. On the day of the attack, a nursing home worker reported that a man entered the room of...
A resident of a nursing home eloped on Thursday, March 18, 2010 from the Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston, Missouri. The facility, owned by Don Bedell, is reportedly equipped with door sensors and alarms,...