A nursing home employee has been arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from several patients at the facility.   According to court documents, there are potentially twenty-one affected residents of the suspected exploitation.   An investigation began once one patient realized his or her account was lacking finances.

A new study has been released which reiterates the strong need for adequate nursing home staff counts.   According to the study, nurses and other various nursing staff are leaving their jobs at nursing homes because of the dire effects low staffing causes.   Low staff counts have been contributing to more hours working under high stress, leading to job dissatisfaction and burn-out.

Two lawsuits are in the works for a nursing home with two alleged incidents of resident neglect.   According to court documents, a long-time resident of the facility faced “emotional harm” and wrongful death under the care of the nursing home.   The claim continues to state the facility failed to notify doctors of the resident’s declining state.

An aide employed at a nursing home facility has been arrested and charged after allegations that he sexually assaulted a patient in his care.   According to court documents, the alleged victim was demented and had Alzheimer’s disease.   Reports state that aide, who was accompanied by an individual who later reported the misconduct to the facility, was abusing the patient verbally and physically.

Two nurse aides were immediately fired after an insensitive social media post went viral.   According to a report, the aides were employees at a nursing home facility who regularly cared for senior citizens.   The social media post contained an image of the aides with the caption “might drop your grandma later.”    According to the aides, the caption was a harmless joke which has been copied and re-posted on many forms of social media outlets.

One nursing home facility is facing financial repercussions following an alleged sexual assault at the facility.  According to a report, the suspected sexual assault offender and the victim were both mentally-incompetent residents at the facility.  Following the police investigation, the facility was fined $25,000 for failure to “adequately assess and identify sexual vulnerability and increased risk of resident-to-resident abuse.”   According to the nursing home care p…