Elderly patients suffering dementia may have a new option before fully embracing a nursing home.  New facilities are opening in some areas offering overnight stays.  Patients are picked up by a van for the evening offering a sanctuary for Alzheimer sufferers and a night of peace for loved ones caring for them. The facility is a concept that began in 1996 and has continued over the past twenty years to help families care for loved ones with dementia without having to fully release them …

A nursing home employee has been charged with alleged abuse of a patient.  A police report says that the patient was beaten. A co-worker called in the incident to police.  The patient was sent to the hospital for injuries sustained. The employee is a Certified Nursing Assistant facing two counts of third-degree vulnerable adult abuse.

A nursing home patient showed dramatic changes in responsiveness after taking antipsychotic drugs. He was later. “We took him into this home thinking this would be the best place for him,” his daughter said.

Nursing home administrators who abandoned a nursing home facility after the license was revoked have been charged with abandoning 14 residents.  The facility owners decided to walk out, as did a number of staff members when the home was forced to close. However, the residents remained and the individuals were left with two staff members unable to abandon the residents.  One of the staff members was a cook. He said he did his best to care for them and could not leave them even though he…

A Senate bill is slated to be presented and passed to ban state inspections from being used against nursing homes in malpractice cases.  A local news station interviewed families to obtain their stories on their family members who experienced abuse or neglect of loved ones. One family noted that the survey report on patient #5 was their family member.  The patient died in the care of staff.

Two nursing home administrators have been charged with records tampering after changing government documents and failing to report information about abuse to officials.  The two administrators instructed facility employees to provide false information regarding an investigation by the state.  The investigation was in pursuit of abuse allegations at the nursing home. The administrators were charged, jailed and released of their own recognizance. The investigation is ongoing by the state…