On Saturday, January 25, 2020, an organization in Beaumont, Texas welcomed people of all ages to make Valentine’s Day cards for residents of a local nursing home. Dozens of participants joined the annual “Spread Your Love” event, as they make efforts to become a more engaged community in Texas. Representatives will deliver cards on February 14, 2020 to select nursing homes in the community.

Falls in nursing homes are a leading cause of death among the elderly Americans, and they can lead to other serious injuries. Patients of nursing homes become fearful of walking again for fear of re-injury. Falls are a discrete event and easy to identify and record, compared to other clinical conditions on Nursing Home Compare such as pressure ulcers or infections, so there should be a wealth of reliable data.The website Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sponsors, is a go-to resource …

Six nursing homes in  Connecticut have been accused of violating a resident's privacy, verbally abusing residents and for violations that resulted in residents' injuries. One of the six is in Uncasville. Orchard Grove Specialty Care Center in Uncasville was fined $7,800 after a resident with dementia fell several times between Aug. 16, 2018, and June 7, 2019. The resident suffered injuries, including an ankle fracture on Aug.

In a 2017 article by the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School, there is an epidemic of nursing home abuse and neglect in the United States. According to a 2014 Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General report, 33 percent of seniors in skilled nursing facilities experienced adverse or temporary harm events, 59 percent of which were preventable.This included excessive bleeding due to medication, falls or other trauma, several kinds of infections, pressu…

A Hawarden nursing home has been accused of negligence in the death of a 58-year-old woman who lived at the facility in Iowa. The estate of Peggy Sue Peck; her sister Cathy Peck, the estate’s administrator; and her mother, Joyce Peck, filed a lawsuit against Hillcrest Health Care Services on December 18, 2019 in the Sioux County District Court in Orange City. The Peck family is currently demanding a jury trial and to seek punitive damages and damages for “severe conscious mental…

Vivian Wright is alleging a nursing home, in Orange Park, Florida that staff neglected to treat her father's bedsore wounds and then tried to cover the smell with coffee grounds. Vivian Wright's father, Frank, entered the Heartland Health Care Center of Orange Park in September 2019 after two strokes and multiple trips to the emergency room. One day, during a visit, she and her brother-in-law found piles of coffee grounds under his bed. Ms.