In 2009, four members of a high school Technolgy Student Association invented a Pressure Sore Relief System (PSRS) designed for use by bedridden patients who suffer from the chronic conditions associated with bed sores. The invention won first place at the 2009 national Technology Student Association (TSA) conference in the Electronic Research and Experimentation category. This month, the students learned that the PSRS will receive a patent.

Police have launched an investigation into a nursing home after thousands of pain pills turned up missing from the facility. The Police Chief said between two and three thousand Lortab (a narcotic pain reliever) pills were discovered missing from the nursing home during a state audit. According to police, several employees are suspected of stealing and distributing the drug.

A former nursing home employee is facing murder charges for her connection to the death of a nursing home resident in April 2009. The 37-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday on murder charges stemming from the death of the resident who was improperly injected with insulin. Investigators allege that she gave an 83-year-old nursing home resident a shot of insulin causing the resident to fall into an insulin induced coma.

Police have identified the body of a 75-year-old man who went missing from a nursing home over the weekend. The Chief of police says the body of of the elderly man was located Monday morning in a creek near the nursing home. His body was partially submerged in the water.

An undisclosed settlement has been reached in the lawsuit of a man after a nursing home director stole pain medication prescribed for his elderly mother for her own use. The agreement was reached following a conference Thursday in district court. The man said his mother was prescribed powerful narcotic painkiller after she fractured her hip in 2004 and fractured her spine in 2006.

A woman has been charged with manslaughter after an autopsy revealed that a home-health patient died with maggot filled pressure ulcers (also known as pressure sores, bed sores, and decubitus ulcers). The woman, 53, was charged with second-degree manslaughter last week in connection to the death of her 80-year-old patient. When authorities arrived at the elderly patients home to investigate her death in October, foul play was not initially suspected.