This week police arrested a certified nursing assistant (CNA)  after he allegedly sexually assaulted an elderly woman at a nursing home. The male CNA, 48, was booked into jail on Monday evening on a sexual assault charge of an elderly person. Police were contacted that evening by the nursing home after another male employee at the facility witnessed the CNA sexually assaulting the resident, police said.

Five people have sued a nursing home and its parent corporation claiming that patients in the facility are subjected to abuse and neglect because of inadequate staffing levels. The lawsuit, filed this week, alleges that residents are frequently left unattended in their own waste for long periods, are overmedicated and develop preventable bed sores (also knows as pressure ulcers, pressure sores, decubitus ulcers and decubitus sores). The nursing home is an 80-bed, for-profit facility that provide…

A runaway car has crashed into a nursing home and killed an 89-year-old man. According to police, the vehicle was parked at the top of a hill on Tuesday but the driver didn’t set the parking brake. The car rolled backward about 260 feet, across a road and smashed more than three feet into the room of of the elderly resident.

A nursing home that lost its federal funding this year because of conditions at the facility, has announced that it will lay off about 90 workers in the coming months. The facility announced that it will remain open and continues to seek recertification but that the departure of Medicaid and Medicare patients means it can no longer keep its current staffing levels. The facility was told that its eligibility to receive Medicare and Medicaid funds was canceled in April after being cited for issues…

A volunteer mailman at one nursing home makes resident’s smile as he delivers mail thanks to the trio of ducks who waddle along behind him. The mailman said his three feathered friends have become a familiar sight to the residents and staff at the nursing home. As he delivers mail, he often scoop us a duckling drops it in the lap of a resident to hold and pet.  “There’s those cutie pies,” resident said one resident as her mail was delivered.

Two large nursing home corporations have been sanctioned by the federal government and must pay a combined total of $875,000 in penalties. One of the violators, HCM Management Inc., has agreed to pay  over $200,000 for allegedly employing workers who had been barred from working in federally funded health care facilities. The inspector general at the U.S.