A nursing home employee who came up with a sinister plot to assault nursing home patients with dementia has been sentenced. The employee was soliciting men to sexually assault elderly dementia patients on video. He received a sentence of 14 years.

Nursing homes in one state may not have proper accountability for staffing levels. Auditors determined that not all nursing homes out of compliance with the standard requirement of hours of care per patient were cited for the violations.  Nursing homes are to be held accountable for staffing inadequacies based on the regulatory standard. “In some cases, we also found that when (the department) completed its staffing reviews, insufficient documentation was obtained to support the …

A nursing home is under state inspection for failure to provide air conditioning to patients in need. The air conditioning broke and after six days still had not been repaired. The facility only focused on patients with medical needs to have altered air conditions. Other patients were left to suffer in the heat.

A nursing home embezzlement scam investigation has ended with the suspect receiving a 30 year jail sentence. The suspect befriended a nursing home patient while offering crafts at the facility. The nursing home patient appointed the suspect power-of-attorney when she suffered a stroke.

Nursing home employees have been arrested and charged for attempted murder and terrorist threats. One employee was accused of attempting to smother a patient with a pillow. The caregiver employee that charged with attempted murder was taken to jail.Another employee called and threatened to kill coworkers at the nursing home facility.

A nursing home employee was caught on a hidden camera abusing a patient after a patient's daughter decided to film the abuse. The patient's daughter was voicing concerns at the nursing home facility and did not receive support from her accusations, so she filmed the abuse. What she caught on camera earned the employee a suspension during the police investigation, a conviction and a jail sentence.“There obviously needs to be the training and monitoring of the way in which people a…