The state has allowed an assisted living facility to stay open, however, they have been ordered not to accept any new patients. The state ruled last week that the 70 residents currently at the facility do not need to be relocated. They were going to be forced out last week after state inspectors determined that the center posed an imminent danger to its residents.

The former employee of a nursing home has been sentenced one to three years in jail for elder abuse. The 41-year-old man learned his sentence during a hearing last week. According to the criminal compliant, another employee at the facility caught the man attempting to sexually assault an 81-year-old, incapacitated, female patient.

A jury come to a decision this week against a company accused of doing too little to prevent a 92-year-old woman’s fatal fall at a nursing home. According to authorities, in October 2004, the elderly woman slipped away from a group of residents at the facility. After an hour, someone noticed she was missing and checked an emergency exit door stairwell.

A nursing home has been charged with neglect  after state health officials investigated a resident who died after being hospitalized for dramatic weight loss. Investigators determined the man’s weight loss and nutrition were not monitored for two months at the facility. State Health Department officials said staff at the facility neglected the man’s “fluid and nutritional needs” and failed to detect a 30 pound weight loss over several weeks.  Because there were many staff members invol…

The board of directors for on hospital has denied the claim of the family of an elderly man who wandered away from the hospital in December 2010. His body was found 10 months later in a ditch along the highway. The board of the medical center voted without discussion to deny the claim.

In one state, the Governor has introduced a bill that would require residential care facilities in the state to issue notifications when registered sex offenders become residents of the facility. In addition, the bill would require such facilities to develop a safety plan regarding visitor, staff and other residents interactions with sex offenders. The proposed legislation comes after an incident last August where an 83-year-old convicted sex offender who suffers from dementia, was caught assaul…