According to the organization Nursing Home Abuse Justice, worldwide there are millions of elderly people abused each year, with only a fraction of the cases which are actually reported to authorities. The New York State Elder Abuse Prevalence Study suggests this number is even more severe, with only one in 25 cases of abuse reported. A 2018 study found that Massachusetts residents in nursing homes and had the best protections for elders overall and South Carolina had the worst protections i…

According to the Buffalo News online, a New York nursing home in Buffalo was recently fined for extreme under staffing of a nursing home facility. In January 2020, a habitually low-rated Buffalo nursing home was fined upwards of $7,000 by the state after it failed to have sufficient staff on duty, as well as numerous other violations. In November 2019, the State Health Department  fined the assisted living facility Safire Rehabilitation of Southtowns, which cares for 110 elderly residents, …

According to a recent news article published by Med News Media, a North Carolina woman was concerned of  the care her mother was receiving at local a nursing home. By using a hidden camera in her mother's room, she caught video of the nursing home staff engaging in abusive conduct towards her mother. Verbal abuse where the attendant yelled at her mother during a change was recorded by the daughter after the first day of installation.

Indiana will now pay higher reimbursement rates for some types of in-home nursing care, but industry experts say the rate increase falls far short of the sweeping rate reforms needed to impact the state’s home nursing crisis.Indiana’s Family and Social Services Administration recently approved the increase after waiting months for the proposed rate hike to gain federal approval. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the rate hike last month, admittedly just a …

Reported by the Redwood Falls Gazette states that a fire burned through the roof of a Fargo nursing home in late January 2020, forcing the evacuation of about 115 residents. Thankfully, no injures were reported. Some residents of the North Dakota nursing home were moved to an adjoining chapel while local fire crews battled a blaze that started in the attic area.

A resident of Halifax, Tina Williams is angry at what she says was a lack of attention given to her mother at a local nursing home. Williams claims that the nursing home staff failed to give needed medical attention during her stay at the facility, and that the neglect felt like the worst feeling in the world. Ms.