According to officials, the former office manager of a nursing home stole more than $21,000 from patient trust fund accounts at the facility. The office manager pleaded not guilty this week in court and was released on bail. She is being charged with third-degree grand larceny, third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, and first-degree falsifying business records.

Two nursing home nurses have been fired after allegedly skipping blood-sugar tests for seven residents. According to officials, the nurses instead documented insulin levels which they simply made up. The report by the state Department of Health says the falsified numbers were later used as the basis to give or deny insulin to those residents.

A judge recently issued a $250,000 bond to the director of an assisted-living facility who allegedly neglected residents. the 68-year-old director of the facility is charged with neglect of a vulnerable adult. According to an incident report, an  individual from the local Ombudsman’s office contacted police on Apr.

Police are investigating a case of alleged elder abuse after they were contacted by a nursing home about an 86-year-old resident found with injuries to her head. The nursing home also called the woman’s daughter and told her that her mother had “taken a blow to the head.” The daughter believes her mother was punched in the head by an employee. Police and the facility are both completing investigations of the incident.

Police have confirmed a startling incident of nursing home abuse. According to police, a male nurse’s assistant is accused of holding a pillow over the face of a 81-year old female nursing home resident in the early morning hours. A co-worker heard the elderly woman shout from outside the room.

Police have determined that an elderly woman shot in the parking lot of a nursing home was the victim of a murder/suicide. The 82-year-old was a resident at the facility. Police found her last week in a wheelchair behind a parked care at the rear of the facility.