Police have made plans to extradite to the U.S. a woman depicted in a video allegedly abusing an elderly man from her home country of Kenya. A Police spokesman says the 59-year-old Kenyan woman is being flown from Nairobi overnight to Du International Airport Thursday afternoon.

Police arrested a woman Monday following allegations of elder abuse at a retirement home. The woman, a 20-year-old caregiver at the retirement community, was taken into custody after a resident discovered her credit card missing and had been used at several shopping locations. A police investigation, lead to the arrest.

An elderly nursing home patient, known by the facility to be at high risk for falls, fell three times within a seven-hour period just days after admission to the nursing home. As a result of the third of the three falls, which occurred when the patient was left unsupervised in his wheelchair without a chair fall alarm, the patient sustained a displaced left hip fracture. The hip fracture required open reduction internal fixation surgery.

An elderly, immobile nursing home patient was allowed to fall from her bed to the floor while being repositioned during incontinence care. The nursing home aide responsible for the fall turned the patient away from her to the opposite side of the bed, left the patient on her left side, and required the patient, who had sustained a stroke with right-sided compromise, to use her right hand to hold onto the repositioning bar/rail of the bed for safety. The aide then turned away from the patient, an…

A recently released report has identified one care facility as among the worst in its state. The review of the nursing home, made public two weeks ago, is based on a February 2012 investigation by the State Department of Health and Human Services. The facility received 11 citations for failing to meet proper standards including: clinical issues, patients being denied rights, and improper evacuation procedures in the three-story facility.

More charges have been filed in connection with abuse at a Staunton nursing home. A registered nurse and the Administrator of Envoy of Staunton are both facing civil charges following allegations that a male nursing assistant assaulted two female residents. The two residents have come forward saying that the aide sexually assaulted them at the facility.