A jury found a nursing home which permitted its patient to fall 26 times guilty of gross negligence in his death.  In addition to the falls, one of which required a hip replacement, the facility permitted the man to develop bed sores.  He was not properly fed, and also developed pneumonia, which was not timely treated.

The House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee requested answers about how well the chief agency which regulates nursing homes nationally (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) is overseeing the industry. The letter requests information about the Florida facility at which 14 patients died during the power outage after Hurricane Irma, as well as its company leader.  The legislators are also interested to know what the agency is doing regarding “reports of …

An 81-year-old nursing home patient died after no CPR was performed. A 41-year-old employee of the nursing home was charged with neglecting the patient's health. For more, read the story.

A nursing home is being investigated for possible over-drugging of patients in a systematic way that has been called by employees of the nursing home as “taking patients to China.”Following a local TV investigation, several informants told the news station that patients at the nursing home were allegedly being sedated unnecessarily and inappropriately.Taking a patient “to China” apparently is a reference to giving a medication that will put that person to sleep, according to…

Louisiana lawmakers are considering a bill to allow video cameras in nursing home rooms. They heard testimony from a woman whose mother experienced mutliple injuries while in a nursing home's care, including a black eye, severe back pain and a compression fracture. The woman had Alzheimer's disease and was not able to explain to her daughter what happened. “[Cameras] would answer so many questions for the residents, the staffs, the doctors who are literally guessing about…

A nursing home will pay $1.5 million in legal costs in addition to a liability verdict previously rendered of $4.1 million due to their patient's stroke which occurred after the nursing home discontinued Coumadin for 14 days without physician approval. Coumadin is used to thin blood and prevent clotting and strokes. For more, http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180328/bartlett-nursing-home-to-pay-56-million-in-stroke-caseread the story.