Nursing home residents are in shock after a Christmas Eve blaze claimed the life of a female resident at the facility. Police say officers received a report of a fire at a local nursing home on Saturday evening. Multiple police and fire departments all responded to the fire.

Police are investigating the holiday stabbing death of an 82-year-old woman at one long-term care home. The woman’s 82-year-old husband is in custody. the facility has not commented on the incident, but early reports are that the woman was killed with a hunting knife.

Thee medical center staff have been arrested including a doctor whose license was suspended in October for writing excessive prescriptions for powerful painkillers that may have contributed to a patient’s death. All three men were led out in handcuffs as reporters and the public watched. The arrests followed a yearlong investigation of the clinic, which deputies said was actually an unlicensed pill mill.

The cost of providing Meals on Wheels for one year to a senior living at home is less than the cost of one day’s hospitalization if that senior’s condition deteriorates. At a Christmas event held this month, Meals on Wheels administrators and volunteers stressed the importance of the program in the face of drastic federal cuts. “It’s very important to keep people in homes,” said Darlene Morgenstern-Loch, assistant director of Lutheran Social Service’s Senior Nutrition Program.

About five years ago, Bridget Stevens decided St. Nick could use some help around Christmas time. She had met several elderly clients at her work who said they were going to be alone for the holidays, so she decided to personally spread some Christmas cheer.

The daughter of one nursing home resident has sued the facility after their mother died in August of 2010 after her tracheostomy tube became dislodged after getting caught on the side rail of her bed. The woman’s care plan required two assistants help her in and out of bed. But in August 2010, while an assistant was moving her without the aid of another person, the woman became caught.