State regulators have said that a nursing home nurse is to blame in the case of a resident who was left unattended in his bathroom, then fell and broke his hip while trying to return to bed. The patient died soon after the fall. A state investigative report said the nurse assisted the resident to the bathroom one evening.

A nurse’s aide has been charged with elder abuse after police say she slapped a 98-year-old resident with the back of her hand at the nursing home where she worked. The victim was hit with enough force to cause substantial bruising. The woman faces a charge of third-degree elderly abuse after the incident which happened last month.

According to NBC29, a judge recently ordered a Staunton woman to serve the maximum sentence in an elder abuse case that ended in the death of an elderly man in her care. The 50-year-old woman, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of abuse-and-neglect of an incapacitated adult. The woman was the sole caregiver for the male victim who was 85-year-old.  After the man’s death in May 2010, an autopsy revealed that the man was emaciated and had suffered multiple i…

A nurse’s aide who worked with the elderly has been arrested by police following a two-month investigation into the theft of narcotic pain patches from cancer patients. Sheriff’s detectives arrested 37-year-old nursing home employee earlier this month on charges of larceny, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and tampering with evidence. Supervisors at the county run nursing home alerted noticed Fentanyl patches missing from several patients at the facility and notified police.

A woman was charged with stealing more than $5,000 worth of jewelry and cash from four residents of a nursing home where she worked. The 55-year-old nursing home employee allegedly stole jewelry from three residents and took $80 cash from a fourth resident in July and August. The woman was arrested at the nursing home earlier this month on four counts each of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.

A man who signed a long-time friend into a nursing home was shocked to learn that in the volumes of paperwork he signed upon his friend’s admission, was an agreement that required the elderly man and his family to take any and all disputes with the facility to a professional arbitrator rather than to court. Within a few weeks of living at the nursing home staff members dropped the man while using a lift device. An ambulance was called and then canceled as his vital signs stabilized.  Later …