A nursing home patient died after receiving too much food in a feeding tube. The patient choked and died after being fed through a tube in 30 minutes instead of over the course of an hour. The state health department came to the facility for an inspection to investigate the incident. The nurse on duty was accused of failing to monitor the patient while he was being fed.

A ninth person has died after a nursing home facility lost power following the aftermath of the hurricane. The nursing home patients were without air conditioning suffering from dehydration and other issues. A diabetic and a double amputee patient was rescued from the facility when rescue workers came to retrieve her. “She was asking for water that night, and they never got water but they did get her a fan,” the patient's son said.

The management firm of a nursing home has sued several executives who embezzled more than $16 million from the management company. The company manages almost 100 nursing home facilities, with 60 of them under contract with one county. Although one executive is pleading innocence, federal prosecutors allege otherwise. The charges brought against the executives allege involvement with fraudulent transactions to buy vacation homes, private jets, luxury trips and gold bars.

Nursing home patients that died preventable deaths following a hurricane may not have justice served in the negligence of care leading to their deaths. The nursing home requires arbitration agreements for all nursing home patients, waiving the right to any court appearance with a judge and/or jury. The patients' loved ones will not be able to see through a case, outside an arbitration controlled by the nursing home. A local attorney who serves to fight against nursing home abuse and neg…

A state governor has added new rules for nursing homes to follow based on the incidents leading to eight patient deaths. The patients died after air conditioning stopped working following a hurricane. One of the new rules requires nursing home and assisted living facilities to acquire generators. The generators must be capable of 96 hours of electricity that can maintain comfortable temperatures.

For-profit nursing homes now face more focus after eight patients died in one nursing home. The patients died from extreme heat conditions when air conditioning was not running after a hurricane. The hospital responded with a mass casualty protocol after receiving the third patient from the same facility. The hospital called 50 emergency workers to service the patients.