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Nursing Home Patient Dies Of Suffocation

A nursing home facility is under investigation after a patient was allowed to suffocate to death. The patient's head became trapped between a mattress and bedrail.  Upon examination the patient was found to have fresh bruising on her neck.

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Nursing Home Under Investigation For Decreased Staffing

A nursing home facility is under investigation for the poor quality care it is offering to its patients. The facility has decreased nursing staff by 54% percent in the past few months. Half of its nursing staff was laid off according to the investigative report.

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Nursing Home Fined $100,000 For Patient Death

A nursing home facility has been fined $100,000 after a 61-year-old patient was found dead in her bed. The patient received a minor surgery to receive an AV shunt for her dialysis. The patient was not monitored over night upon her return.

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Nursing Home Closes After Series Of Violations

A nursing home facility has closed following a series of violations. One of the violations involved a younger 52-year-old resident beating an older 86-year-old resident. The older resident was punched over 50 times according to video surveillance.

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Nursing Home Patients Suffering Poor Quality Care According To Whistleblower

A family member of a nursing home patient has alerted a whistleblower hotline out of concerns of quality of patient care at the facility where her family member is a patient. The whistleblower notes the lack of toileting care and smell of urine in the hallway. “It really smells like urine all the way down the halls, and some of them will sit in those Depends pretty much for half a day, at least,” says an Anonymous Person.She is very concerned and appalled with the treatment.

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Nursing Home Patient Dies, Representative Sues

The representative of a nursing home patient has filed a lawsuit for $2.3 million in damages for injury and wrongful death due to a patient's fall and death at a nursing home facility. The patient was allowed to fall in another patient's room and was placed back in his bed wheelchair and then his bed with a hip fracture. The nursing home delayed in sending him to a hospital. “Facility staff found him on the floor of another resident's room, lying in the fetal position and c…

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