A trial is underway for against a nursing home for enacting a do not resuscitate order signed by the patient. Children of the deceased patient filed the lawsuit claiming the patient was mentally ill and without capacity when she signed the form. The family of the deceased patient is seeking damages of $10 Million in the case.The patient died of pneumonia which the lawsuit alleges came from bedsores.

Multiple nursing homes in a nursing home chain surveyed by health inspectors were cited for various health care deficiencies. One facility was not unclean with filth so bad in one patient's room, a surveyor's shoe stuck to the floor and came completely off the surveyor's foot. A patient at another facility died of inflammation from a UTI that was left untreated. The nursing homes are being pushed to grow rapidly and patient care is paying the price.

Nursing home residents are preparing to put on a Christmas pageant for other residents, friends and family. The nursing home residents practice for over a month to put on the pageant. The chaplain works with them to prepare. The residents are dressed according to their parts as angels, Mary, and Joseph.

A nursing home has been cited after failing to report patient abuse.  Due to patient complaints of abuse, the nursing home was investigated.  The abuser has since been terminated.

A couple has been arrested and held in the death of a patient for whom they were providing care. The patient was a 54-year-old male who suffered from bed sores that got infected. The infection caused the man's death. He was only 74 pounds when he died, weighing 140 pounds before  his health declined.

A nursing home nurse has been convicted of elder abuse of a patient. The nurse was accused of pinching a patient's ear and making the patient hit herself in the face. The nurse also pushed the patient's head down during the incident. The nurse pleaded guilty to felony cruelty to an elder person and misdemeanor simple battery of an elderly person.