The trial of a Richmond man accused of neglecting his 86-year-old mother, who was found dead with bedsores, gangrene and surrounded by flies started this week in the Richmond Circuit Court. Richard Lee Wallace, 57, is charged with elder abuse or neglect of an incapacitated adult resulting in death. The prosecutors say that the man failed to seek medical attention for his deteriorating mother.

Over 400 nursing home patients are waiting to return to their rooms after the building caught fire in the morning hours. Officials with the fire department suspect that the fire was started when a resident’s cigarette ignited a mattress on the sixth floor of the building around 1.a.m. Monday.

A nursing home has been fined $75,000 by the department of health after an investigation following the death of a resident. The facility also received a Class “AA” citation which is the most severe punishment under state law. In February, a certified nursing assistant (CNA) used a mechanical lift chair by herself to transfer a resident out of the bathtub.

The daughter of an 88-year-old nursing home resident who suffered from dementia has learned that her father did not die a natural death in his bed at the nursing home. Instead, he choked to death while being fed by a caregiver. His daughter who had installed a video camera in his room, was told by nursing home staff that he died peacefully.  After in investigation however, it was determined that on January 29, 2011 the man chocked to death and the aide failed to respond appropriately.

A state investigation has found that a brain-injured man who died after disappearing from a personal care home wasn’t checked on for nearly three hours the day he went missing. Documents from the investigation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Office of Inspector General also show that that nursing home did not have proper policies and procedures in place to ensure that residents were continually supervised. The investigation occurred in connection with the August disappearance of a…

A resident of one nursing home died after she was repeatedly given doses of potassium chloride that were 10 times the amount she had been prescribed, a state investigation has found. State regulators blamed the deadly error on a nurse who misread the prescription.  The patent, 84, died of cardiac arrest last December after receiving 14 doses of the drug.  The accidental death raises questions about the poor penmanship and difficult-to-read prescriptions that are frequent in the medical…