A December altercation between nursing home patients has been ruled a homicide. A female nursing home resident, 88, died December 13 after an altercation more than a week earlier with another resident. According to the coroner, the other resident pushed her resulting in a head injury.

The family of one nursing home resident has filed a lawsuit after the woman tragically dies in 2008. What started as a morning shopping trip for the elderly woman didn’t end until after 4 a.m. the following day.

One nursing home will have to find new homes for around 100 residents after the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to no longer offer funding to the facility. The facility has been given until February 6, 2012 to relocate the affected residents. According to a statement provided by the facility, the decision came after CMS found six deficiencies which it described as placing residents in immediate jeopardy.  The deficiencies included one dietary instance, inappropriate …

A norovirus outbreak has spread to nursing homes in multiple cities in one state, according to  the County Health Department. On Tuesday, it came out that there was a norovirus outbreak at a fist facility. Wednesday, the  Health Department confirmed the same illness has hit a nursing home in neighboring city.

Two nurses are facing disciplinary action over accusations they acted dishonestly while employed at a long term care facility. The charge nurse allegedly told the daughter of a care home resident that her father “did not look well”, when she either knew or at least thought he had already died. She is also accused of failing to keep accurate records of the man’s death, by writing he had died in bed, which was not the truth.

Prosecutors have charged a 56-year-old nurse in connection with her alleged failure to act after examining an elderly woman with deep bedsores (also know as pressure sores, pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers) who subsequently died. In court documents, investigators from the Sheriff’s Office claimed that the registered nurse and “self-described instructor on care giving of vulnerable adults,” was supposed to examine residents and train staff at the care facility where she was employed. The nurse…