Patients are not allowed to be admitted to a nursing home receiving fines for violations dating months back. Nursing home staff put some residents in immediate jeopardy causing the bar on admissions until quality of care is improved. The nursing home is under 20 hours of monitoring a week as well.

A nursing home case ended with a $1 million award to a family who lost a loved one in a hurricane. The jury ruled that the nursing home did not fulfill its obligations to care appropriately for the patient who died. The ruling came ten years after the hurricane and subsequent death of the patient.

Two nursing home patients are dead and families are questioning the circumstances. The patients both died by choking. One patient choked on oatmeal and the other on bile, dying the next day.

A new trial is underway for a nursing home case reaching an award of $13.2 million for abuse of a nursing home patient. A judge overturning the ruling stated that the jury did not receive sufficient instructions. The case involved claims on a negligence count, a violation of the state nursing home act and a wrongful death claim.

Nursing home officials have been accused of hiding neglect and abuse of patients at a nursing home facility. The co-owners and managers of a nursing home facility were indicted on 45 counts accumulated among the four individuals involved. Incidents concealed by the nursing home include a case of sexual assault and a medical error.

A certified nursing assistant at a nursing home has been charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, a felony, and willful violation of health laws, a misdemeanor, by the Attorney General’s office. The incident involved a patient with a knee fracture who was incapable of moving without the assistance of a mechanical lift, which required two caregivers to assist. The patient suffered a blow to the head and two black eyes from the fall.  …