A family member is looking for justice on behalf of his late wife whose diamond band was stolen at the nursing home where she resided. The band was a gift from her husband and became a permanent fixture on her hand. She never removed the ring until it was taken off her hand by a nurse working at the facility.

One state has passed a law that will go into effect the first of the year in 2016 to help families protect loved ones. Nursing home facilities will by law be required to allow video cameras in the rooms of their patients. Families or the nursing home patients themselves will pay the bill.

A nurse at a nursing home facility was recently arrested for stealing medication from patients. Drugs that belonged to patients were found in the nurse’s car. She also confessed to the theft of oxycodone, tramadol, vicodin, sleeping pills, and melatonin among other drugs.  Once the nurse was caught on surveillance video for conducting suspicious activity with access to patients’ medications, police were brought in to investigate.

A specific nursing home found itself off to a good start in the year when its annual survey in February resulted in no deficiencies or enforcement from the state. They received an above state average score and even had the top rating over all the facilities in their company, that is, until two of their nursing aides posted embarrassing videos of the residents on personal social media accounts. Despite the fact that the two aides were fired and banned for life from working with elderly residents …

A former nursing home employee has been charged with a Class A felony due to the neglect and abuse of an elderly patient under her care. The licensed nurse administered narcotic medication in the place of cough medicine. The patient was not supposed to receive the narcotic and in turn experienced the effects of an overdose.

A nursing home caregiver guilty of repeat offenses of abuse is losing his professional license. There were numerous offenses including allowing a patient to wait two hours after first being asked before offering assistance to help the patient use the bathroom. Another offense involved sexual misconduct with a patient while putting them in a lift.