An employee of a nursing home with a pretty good track record recently became entangled with law enforcement after  deputies say she assaulted an Alzheimer’s patient. Owner of nursing home, states that a nurse discovered a bump on the back of a patient’s head. This prompted an investigation which found one of their nursing assistants was to blame.

A 41-year-old man has been arrested and is being held on $5 million bail after police say he castrated a paraplegic during a dispute at an assisted living facility. Officials say the man is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and other related counts after Monday night’s attack at the assisted-living-facility. Police say the suspect was visiting a female friend who apparently had some sort of dispute with the victim.

According to an incident report, an employee had to wake the patient in order to change her bed sheets when the patient became agitated. The employee pushed the patient back into her bed and stated to the patient that she would hit patient if she fought back again. Two days after the incident at the nursing home, a bump was discovered on back of the patient’s head.

The search for a missing nursing home resident ended well Sunday morning when the resident was found safe inside the facility. Police were notified that an 85-year-old nursing home patient was missing Saturday around 4:00 pm. The elderly man suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.

A nursing home has been fined $2,000 after four residents died of pneumonia during an outbreak of viral respiratory illnesses at the home earlier this year. The outbreak affected nearly half of the home’s 43 residents. state records show.

The State Department of Health is making plans to shut down a nursing home after a hidden camera revealed patient abuse and neglect. The facility has been on the state’s “special focus facilities” for nearly five years due to severe deficiencies dealing with food handling and patient care. The daughter of one 94-year-old resident recalled that staff would keep her mother “on the commode 30 to 45 minutes at a time.” Due to 41 complaints at the facility and its poor status with the state, the Stat…