The family of a loved one has filed a wrongful death lawsuit after a patient's death. The patient suffering from Alzheimer's died after being left in a bathtub for over eight hours. The lawsuit accuses the family of a failing to staff the facility properly to provide proper care for their loved one. “When there are not enough staff members to care for residents, it creates an environment where employees are trying to do too many things that they forget about putting a resident …

A nursing home employee has admitted to stealing narcotics from a patient after being accused of taking 78 hydrocodone pills. The state is working to reduce health care fraud and named the employee as a suspect inclusive of the campaign.”After initially denying the allegation, court documents say she later admitted to an agent that she stole the pills,” the attorney general's statement said. For more, read the story. 

Two families are filing lawsuits against the same facility for the same type of negligence and wrongful death. An 89-year-old patient and an 85-year-old patient both fell and sustained head injuries. The first patient died about a week after her fall.

Nursing home bed rails are under review for the possibility of bed rail entrapment. Bed rail entrapment can cause death by asphyxia when a patient becomes caught between the mattress and the bed rail. Bed rails that come attached to beds have a less likely potential to entrap a patient.

A nursing home employee is facing charges after pleading guilty in a nursing home theft case. The employee used the credit cards of three patients to make personal purchases without their consent. She faces up to four years in prison for the $11,000 of goods purchased through the credit cards. “Identity theft of any kind is reprehensible — especially when it exploits vulnerable New Yorkers like nursing home residents,” the state attorney general said in a statement.

A nursing home patient has eloped from the facility where he resides. When someone opened the door to the facility, the patient walked outside the building. The patient then was noticed on surveillance cameras running from the facility.