Health officials in one state have declared an outbreak of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) at a hospital’s medical/palliative care unit. In just two weeks officials have confirmed five cases of the illness.

Police are looking for three armed men who forced their way into a nursing home early Thursday morning, demanding narcotic pain medication. The men allegedly approached an employee who was outside the facility on her break around 4:00 a.m. Two of the men forced the employee to give them pills from the medication closet at gunpoint, while the third suspect stood watch.

Police have charged a nursing home employee who allegedly overdosed on heroin while at work. Law enforcement officials were called to the nursing home after several employees found their co-worker collapsed on the floor in a facility hallway.  Police who responded to the facility found two empty bags, which appeared to have contained heroin, and a syringe on a bathroom sink inside the nursing home. According to police, the woman said that she had been clean for several weeks before using th…

Police are investigating claims by several residents at an assisted-living facility who say they were raped by a medical technician at the facility.  According to an arrest warrant, the suspect has been charged with rape, sexual offense and sexual battery in connection with an assault on a resident. According to the police documents, an employee called the sheriff’s office after she witnessed the medical technician standing at the foot of a resident’s bed with his hand near his genitals. Wh…

A personal caregiver was arrested and charged this week with neglect of a dependent person after a woman he was hired to care for died with severe bed sores (also known as pressure sores, pressure ulcers, decubitus sores, and decubitus ulcers). The injuries were discovered after the caregiver called to report the 53-year-old woman was having difficulty breathing and was possibly having a heart attack. Police say an ambulance responded to the caregiver’s home and transported the patient to the ho…

According to authorities, a 65-year-old man is dead after a fire at an assisted living facility where he lived. Fire safety officials say the blaze started at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday.