A patient suffering from dementia is missing from a nursing home. The patient also struggles with speech and confusion. The police have asked for anyone with knowledge of his whereabouts to call 911 or the police station.

A state representative is trying to bring awareness to a nursing home situation where a dementia patient repeatedly assaulted patients sexually. A state report says the staff at the nursing home was aware, but failed to report it. In follow up interviews, employees stated that the sex was consensual.

As many as 300 people were concerned enough to rally together and protest their governor’s proposal to cut back money spent on nursing homes and Medicaid. The proposal is to cut $50 million dollars in Medicaid reimbursements. They are concerned that many nursing homes cannot afford these payment cuts, and as a result many of them will have to be closed while nurses are dismissed from their jobs.

Following an annual survey inspection, a nursing facility was found to have a few deficiencies that jeopardized their facility’s reputation. The violations started out with the facility not having a proper plan of care for multiple residents nor having a physician attend quarterly as required. The consequences for these deficiencies remaining over time led to a $300 per day fine, and the denial for Medicare or Medicaid admissions.

A 72-year-old patient at a facility recently died when five staff ignored his monitor alarms not being hooked up to his respirator. The five employees of the facility now at trial in the Supreme Court with two juries. One of the juries will decide on the case for only one of the five employees who pleaded not guilty.

A nursing home is being investigated because the facility has now allowed two residents to wander from the home. One of the residents walked out of the facility and was not found by police until two days later. The other resident that disappeared from the home was gone for three days, and found by police.