Officials in one state are pursuing disciplinary action against the administrator of a nursing home where a 76-year-old Alzheimer’s patient died after falling out of her wheelchair and breaking her neck.  A complaint filed by the attorney general’s office accuses the administrator of failing to report the injuries to the state health department on time and also failing to provide timely evidence that the facility investigated the incident. The elderly woman died just two days after falling …

State investigators have released their findings regarding allegations of abuse at a nursing home. The daughter of an elderly nursing home resident caught the alleged abuse on a hidden camera placed in the woman’s room. As a result of the investigation, four nursing home employees were suspended indefinitely, including the center’s administrator.

The family of an elderly female nursing home resident sexually assaulted by another resident  have settled their wrongful death claim against the facility. Lawyers for both sides announced last week before the second week of trial was to begin that the case had been settled. The 90-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a fellow resident at the home in January 2009.

A woman has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after cashing nursing home residents’ benefit checks for her personal use, according to federal prosecutors.The woman was sentenced on one count of embezzlement and five counts of filing false tax returns. Prosecutors said that in four years as a bookkeeper at a nursing home, she embezzled $440,958.05. The former nursing home employee was able to cover her theft by making accounting adjustments to the residents’ accounts, prosecutors said.

The State Department of Health is investigating a nursing home where a resident choked to death. The Health Department cited the nursing home this month for a deficiencies which placed residents in  “immediate jeopardy.” The 450 resident facility claims the care issues have been corrected since the recent deadly incident. The details of the choking incident have not yet been released.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently update its list of troubled nursing homes and four Virginia Facilities has landed on the list.  The list is designed to help families choosing nursing homes to quickly identify those facilities with a history of serious care deficiencies. The facilities on the list have been identified as having twice the deficiencies of an average nursing home, more serious issues, and a more prolonged period of care issues. The list was u…