Three nursing homes have been fined due to citations of neglect. The nursing homes have allowed individuals to suffer injuries due to neglect. Incidents included falls and pressure sores.Patients suffered injuries including brain bleeds, blisters, pressure sores, and cuts.

Recent studies of nursing home patients in relationship to nursing home aggression have revealed some correlations between patients suffering dementia and increasing situations of placing individuals in communities with behavioral issues. “Much (but not all) of inter-personal aggression in nursing homes stems from the fact that people, many of whom have dementia and other neurodegenerative illnesses, are being thrust into communal living environments for the first time in decades, if ever,…

Three facilities have allowed patients to fall or develop pressure sores. The state department of health has fined and cited the facilities for violating standards of care with the patients allowed to suffer injuries due to negligence of care. Nursing home employees were inserviced regarding care measures to be taken with patients related to circumstances of the incidents. Documentation for patients who fell showed that the doctor had not been notified of one patient's fall, and anothe…

Four nursing homes in one state have received fines for medication errors, falls with broken bones and wandering from the facility. One of the facilities with a medication error and citation on the first survey visit had a repeat error where a patient did not receive three doses of an anti-depressant. The incidents were allowed by the same nurse in each situation. Other incidents cited involved a patient falling out of a wheelchair and breaking a hip when the patient should have been watche…

The family of a loved one has filed a lawsuit against a nursing home for abuse and neglect leading to the patient’s death. The patient was allowed to suffer dehydration and bed sores. Dehydration is often a danger that must be thwarted with the elderly by caregivers, as they do not often have awareness of their need for fluids. The bed sores the patient suffered led to sepsis.

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are seen by many families as failing to take full responsibility for each patient's care by requiring upon admission that families sign arbitration agreements. The arbitration agreements agreed upon at admission are controlled by the facility and often kept secret from the public. Most families are focused on the immediate care of their loved one upon admission and do not have full awareness of the impact of signing the agreement until an inciden…