Residents were uprooted from one home to another causing concerns and questions. Specific questions are about a cancer patient recently in remission who died suddenly three days after moving to a new nursing home. “My car’s not that trustworthy to go that far, that’s why we wanted to get him close,” the resident’s mom said.  “It’s not right how they got kicked out of there.  He went from fighting cancer, taking the chemo, he fought it all this time with the pills and now, I lose him wi…

Residents that want to spend time with their families during the holidays can do so, but it will cost them.  Residents that take short periods of leave for the holidays will pay a bed holding fee. The fee is consistent with the cost of receiving care for the day, whether the resident is present or not.

More than 900 nursing homes in the U.S. still lack fire sprinklers. The mandate came in 2008 after 31 fire related deaths occurred in 2003.

One state is looking for ways to improve after ranking 40th on a national listing of nursing home care. Receiving a grade of D has alerted state government officials to the need for change and improvement. The reason for the D grade comes from a list of nursing home neglect and abuse occurrences.

Nursing home workers coming to pick up paychecks arrived to the surprise of a closed facility.  The workers had been told the facility was under renovation when residents were being taken out of the home and transferred. All but five guests were removed by the time the facility was closed.

The U.S. Department of Justice is handing out criminal charges to pharmaceutical drug companies for marketing their products over-aggressively. The use of antipsychotic drugs is on the rise in nursing homes where dementia is rampant.