A federal grand jury has returned a five-count indictment charging a nursing home owner with wire fraud and making false statements. The 54-year-old nursing home owner is charged with two schemes to make money including taking more than $150,000 in charity funds for his own personal use. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and/or a fine of $250,000.

The head of a group that advocates for nursing home care says she is appalled with the violations found at the one nursing home for veterans. The violations, she says, are so severe and numerous she is hoping a change will be made in administration at the facility. The group began investigating the Veterans Home a month ago, after being contacted by a resident’s family.  What they found was a long list of violations including failure to prevent and treat pressure ulcers (also known bed sore…

A caregiver was ordered held without bond last week on charges of murder, elder abuse, embezzlement and identity theft in connection with the death of a 79-year-old man whom he was caring for. The Prosecutor’s office charged the 67-year-old caretaker with killing his client back in August at the man’s apartment complex. The man displayed signs of neglect at the time of his death.  The charges against the caretaker include second-degree murder, first and second degree abuse of a vulnerable a…

A judge found three healthcare workers not guilty this week of abusing an elderly patient. The verdict issued by Judge Kevin Kelly followed a one-day non-jury trial held December 9th. The three women had been charged with simple assault, false imprisonment and neglect of care in the case of a 78-year-old nursing home resident.

A nursing home has been fined more than $20,000 earlier this year for failing to prevent and investigate allegations of abuse at the facility. The fine imposed on facility was issued this summer by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The fine stems from a March 22 survey of the nursing home focused on allegations of abuse involving two residents.

The owners of a mental-health-care company and an assisted-living facility have been arrested for allegedly Medicare fraud totaling over $90 million, according to the Department of Justice. The three men were arrested Wednesday on charges in federal court. The Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services and the FBI,  who conducted the investigation, announced that the charges are conspiracy to commit health-care fraud and conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health-c…