A nursing home aide pleaded guilty after being accused of theft of a patient. Initially the nursing aide pleaded not guilty, however, the patient set up a video camera in her room after noticing items were missing. Suspecting an employee, the patient caught the nursing aide stealing money from her purse.  A total of $53 was taken when the camera was running, however, other items were missing prior.

A nursing home social worker has been charged with abuse after pushing a patient to the ground and then kicking their legs out of the way to exit the door. The social worker pleaded not guilty, however, did not help the patient off the floor. The patient suffers from a brain injury and seizures, and is a high fall risk.

A nursing home has been turned over to local government in efforts to reinstate Medicaid and Medicare funding. The facility received a survey report that led to the removal of government funding. The main problems stemmed from issues with administration and nursing services.  A healthcare company was running the facility for two years when the problems surfaced in the survey report.

Nursing home employees shared with a local news station after their facility closed due to poor state inspections. The nursing home was owned by a chain that operated twelve homes across the United States. After all of the patients have found new homes and the facility is no longer operating, employees are speaking out.  “I love older people, and seeing them treated wrong, that they did the way that they did to them, I’m kinda scared to go back in to another nursing home,” one former employ…

A nursing home employee has been convicted of stealing $170,000 from patients over a period of four years.  The employee was responsible for managing patient accounts and setting up their shopping needs. To cover the missing funds, the nursing home employee made false entries in her record keeping.  She was found guilty of three counts of larceny and one count of making false entries in corporate books.

Five nursing home have been fined more than $1,000 each for incidents involving lapses in patient care and even two deaths. One patient was allowed to fall when repositioned by only one nurse instead of two, suffering broken bones and ultimately death. Another patient was allowed to sustain 6 days without having a bowel movement, requiring hospitalization.