Residents of the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax's north end have been benefiting from technological innovations in assisted living facilities. The Canadian non-profit organization runs two such facilities and has more than 600 residents. Despite being a quadriplegic and needing to get around in a motorized wheelchair, the Halifax resident Jacklyn Carter said she feels more independent than she has in years.

A nursing home in Champaign, Illinois has been fined $25,000 by the state in connection to a violation falling into the high-risk category. According to an Illinois Department of Public Health report from August 2019, the Champaign Rehab Center reportedly failed to assess the feet and obtain treatments for a resident with Type 2 diabetes and peripheral vascular disease.The failure resulted in the resident being admitted to the hospital with gangrene, which then required an above-the-knee amputat…

According to reports from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, reported by Lancaster Online, two residents at separate Lancaster County nursing homes died after workers at each facility violated patient transfer policiesIn both cases, the residents died of what the coroner determined were traumatic neck injuries after falling while being transferred by one worker instead of the required two. Reports of the two nursing homes, fail to name the residents or employees involved, but say the inciden…

A man in Richmond, Virginia has been charged with the murder of his 86 year old roommate in a nursing home facility.  Police arrested 65-year-old Lynwood L. Main at the care facility ManorCare Health Services-Imperial in Richmond on Wednesday, January 15, 2020.

A New Jersey nursing home, Cumberland Manor Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center was recently accused of negligence in the death of a former resident named Fred Pittman. The lawsuit claims a “staff member at the facility performed a simulated lap dance on the 84-year-old man.” Also staffers were said to have “failed to prevent and treat injuries, manage pain, comply with physician orders and provide adequate food and hydration,” according to the suit that was filed in s…

According to a recent article by McKnights Long Term Care News, an Iowa doctor, Mr. Joseph X. Latella, was sentenced to two months in prison and ordered to pay about $316,400 to settle the False Claims Act allegations in a plea agreement, the U.S.