A wrongful death complaint against a Veterans Hospital has been settled for $223,000.The man was admitted to the VA hospital in 2013 at the age of 52, suffering from multiple issues resulting from severe obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. During the next 3 years, he had many setbacks and formed a pressure ulcer.  His surviving wife's lawsuit alleged that the home “[n]egligently and carelessly failing to properly assess the Decedent’s risks for developing pressure ulc…

Social media is abuzz about a video showing an assisted living facility employee slumped over at the waist in a chair. The video was taken by another staff member around 5:30 a.m. during an overnight shift.

A nursing home patient was permitted to overdose on unsecured narcotics. The investigation has also determined that the facility “has a much higher number of health citations than the state average — a total of 31,” according to a federal website.The facility was fined in 2016 and 2017 a total of hundreds of thousands of dollars. For more, read the story.

A certified nursing assistant lost her job at a nursing home for slapping an 81-year-old patient in the face. The Florida Department of Health has suspended the aide from her certification.  The incident occurred while the aide was feeding the patient who was “suffering from physical limitations, organic brain damage, dementia with behavioral disturbances, major depression, Parkinson's disease, hypertension, and lack of capacity to consent.”  After the patient spit her …

A county nursing homes director resigned in part for failing to advise county officials about a state investigation of an unreported nursing home patient's fall which led to her death. The nursing home aides who were helping the 93-year-old resident at the time she fell filed no reports after the fall.  A few days later, the patient had extensive bruising.  She died a few days later at the hospital.

A 59-year-old man was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a nursing home patient who is in a vegetative state, police said.  The man was arraigned and being held on bail.  For more, read the story.