A nursing home facing difficulties providing sufficient care due to management turnovers and shortages of nursing staff has been cited by the state department of health. “The review of the home showed it was not properly analyzing medication errors, not notifying doctors of errors and not checking patients for bed sores.” The state said the patients were placed in “immediate jeopardy”. A consultant was hired to help put together a plan of correction to avoid losing federal funding for qualifying…

A nursing home patient was allowed to suffer multiple falls and a left femur fracture, bringing the family to action out of concern for the patient. Expectations of provision of quality care for their family member were not met. The family is now suing the nursing home for damages after seeing how the patient suffered physically and mentally from the abuse and neglect allowed by the nursing home.  Among the damages listed are mental anguish, loss of capacity for enjoying life, and medical e…

Hidden cameras in nursing homes are gaining in popularity as families find the benefit they offer to keeping an eye on their family when they are not able to be present. They also believe it keeps family members safe in the long run. “What we know … is that the use of cameras can be a deterrent,” said a proponent of the cameras.

Social media continues to cause issues for nursing home patients as employees share personal photos of bathing online. Many of the videos include mocking the patients while they are nude or partially nude. This adds to the types of abuse nursing home patients suffer.  “These people, our older generation, have served, whether they were a vet or not, they have served in our communities and in our society.

A nursing home former employee pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assault on a patient. In return, other pending charges of sexual assault were dropped. The former nursing home caregiver will serve one year of home detention and 545 days of sex offender probation.  Numerous patients reported that the caregiver was sexually inappropriate with them, asking to touch them, or asking them to touch him inappropriately.

A nursing home licensed practical nurse faces sentencing for a medication error that she tried to cover up. Upon giving a patient an overdose of narcotics rather than cough medicine, the nurse falsified the medical records of the patient to reflect she had given the correct medication, rather than alerting administration or outside healthcare providers.  Hours later another nurse noticed symptoms in the patient requiring hospitalization. The patient was sent to the hospital for several…