A bill requiring a nursing assistant quota for patients in one state has passed the state Assembly and now only requires the governor’s final approval. The Senate passed the bill a month prior. The bill requires nursing homes to staff one nursing aid for every 8 patients on the day shift, one nursing aid for every 10 patients on the evening shift, and one nursing aid for every 16 patients on the night shift.  “Seniors and their loved ones deserve the comfort of knowing that there is a suffi…

A nursing home patient has filed a lawsuit after being allowed to fall under the care of the facility. The patient alleged in the lawsuit that she fell and was placed back in bed without her family’s knowledge. The family as not notified until the next day.

The family of a paraplegic man is blaming the nursing home for a patient’s death.  Entrusted with the patient’s care, the nursing home allowed the patient to suffer from bed sores and infections. The nursing home also failed to change the patient’s catheter for four weeks.

A nursing home facility failed to report an incident involving the abuse of a patient after being made aware. The incident took place in a patient’s room, where two nursing assistants strapped the patient to her bed after blocking her from leaving her room and then dragging her across the floor. The patient sustained bruises on her legs and arms.  The nursing home facility did not follow proper procedures in alerting the state.

A certified nursing assistant was found to be intoxicated on the job and harmed a patient in the process. The patient sustained an arm injury and the incident was cited as abuse. The nursing home aide was arraigned on adult abuse and neglect charged.

A male nurse was arrested after allegations that he sexually assaulted a patient at the nursing home. A nursing home employee observed a patient being assaulted by a nurse in the early hours of the morning. Police were contacted and an investigation ensued.  The victim suffers from dementia and was unable to defend again the assaulter.