A 58-year-old man with dementia living at a care center in Minnesota died from bleeding in the brain several weeks after he was repeatedly punched in the face by a staff member at the facility, according to a state investigation. Read more at newsweek.com
Thursday the 14th
A nursing home in Danbury was among six such facilities to be fined recently by the state Department of Health, the Connecticut Health I-Team has reported. Read more at patch.com
Tuesday the 12th
A Palos Park nursing home was fined heavily after state officials found that the facility failed to failure to follow its falls policy and have appropriate interventions in place. Holy Family Villa was fined $25,000 by the Illinois Department of Public Health following two complaint investigations in October 2018. The violations were reported in the […]
Thursday the 7th
A new report from the Minnesota Department of Health says a resident at an Aitkin County assisted living home was beaten by staff, and subsequently died of his injuries. Read more at bringmethenews.com
Tuesday the 5th
A Quincy nursing home has been fined after a staff member reportedly slapped a baby doll belonging to a resident who suffered from dementia. Read more at whig.com
Thursday the 31st
One woman is dead after an incident at an Oklahoma City nursing center. Police say both the victim and the person responsible live at the center. Read more at kfor.com
Tuesday the 29th
77 year old Ruth Jones was a patient at the Laurellwood Nursing Center in St. Petersburg for 3 years. She suffered from Alzheimer’s. Osteoporosis fractured vertebrae leaving her in constant and severe pain.Her daughter Cindy Harris volunteered at Laurellwood until an illness in 2018 kept her away for a few months.When she returned in August, […]
Thursday the 24th
A home health aide arrested on suspicion of abusing a patient was arraigned Friday in Peabody. Sophonie Fidele, 27, was charged with assault and battery on a person over 60 and intimidating a witness. Fidele is accused of assaulting a 90-year-old woman with whom she lived in the victim’s home for about 3 weeks. Read […]
Tuesday the 22nd
The estate of a Caroga Lake woman who died shortly after a fall with a head injury nearly two years ago at the Wells Nursing Home has filed a lawsuit against the facility seeking civil damages. Read more at leaderherald.com
Thursday the 17th
The Minnesota Department of Health confirms a federal investigation is now underway in regard to a St. Paul nursing home at which three people have died in the past four years due to ventilator-related neglect, according to MDH records. Read more at kstp.com
Tuesday the 15th