A nursing home has declined to comment on details of a nursing home patient’s accident. The patient was hit by a school bus across the street from the nursing home where the patient resided. The bus was not carrying children, but it left the men shaken who were driving it.

A nursing home negligence case filed in 2006 has reach the Supreme Court after being appealed by the defendant. The case involves a patient who fell and suffered serious injuries as a result of the fall. The patient was then sent to the emergency room for two surgeries, causing a heart attack and lack of oxygen to the brain, and ultimately death.

A nursing home patient is dead after staff failed to follow nursing home policy when he stopped breathing. The policy states that every resident unless they request in writing to not be resuscitated. No one gave the patient CPR due to personal judgment calls.

One state reveals that over 1,200 medication error citations were given to nursing homes in 2013. Some of the errors were realized by families that noticed behavior changes in their loved ones. “And it wasn’t until then that we had found out that he was not getting his medication properly,” said one family member.

A series of incidents led seven different nursing homes to be fined. The incidents included medication errors and burned and broken legs, leading to hospital stays for most of the patients. Many of the administrators of the nursing homes declined comments when asked, or could not be reached.

A 76 year old male patient admitted to a Central Virginia nursing home, was at a high risk for developing pressure ulcers due to prior falls, fall-related injuries, surgery, and other medical conditions and limitations. On admission the patient did not have any pressure ulcers. Within weeks at the nursing home, the patient developed a stage IV pressure ulcer (pressure sores, bed sore, decubitus ulcer).