The family of a 90-year-old woman has sued a nursing care facility alleging of that she was neglected on a repeated basis. this neglect, the family claims lead to a serious infection which required hospitalization. According to the suit, filed last month,  during the month long admission at the home, the staff “repeatedly failed to perform basic wound monitoring, nutrition and hydration,” so that the woman’s developed severe pressure ulcers (also known as bed sores,  pressure sores, de…

The daughter of a nursing home resident is suing her mother’s nursing home, claiming that a nurse “was too busy” to help her suffocating mother, who died more than two years ago. According to the lawsuit, on June 20, 2008, the woman’s mother was admitted to the nursing center with respiratory failure and pneumonia. She required a tracheostomy tube to help her breathe.

A woman whose body was found floating in a river along a park has been identified as a 66-year-old assisted-living facility resident less than a mile from the park, police said Monday. Police believe that the death was accidental and may have been related to a medical condition. The facility is not a restrictive facility and unlike a nursing home or hospital residents can come and go as they please, police said.

One state is considering legislation which would require federal background checks and increased training for the people who care for our seniors and citizens with disabilities. Initiative 1163 requires home care workers, who provide the same type of care as nursing home workers but in a more isolated setting, to pass a full federal background check. Currently, the state-level background check misses crimes committed in other states, leaving seniors and disabled citizens vulnerable to felons fro…

The following was reported by WSLS 10: Two Virginia contractors pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to steer maintenance and repair contracts at healthcare and nursing home facilities owned by Medical Facilities of America Inc. (MFA) to their plumbing business, according to the Department of Justice. The two men pleaded guilty in U.S.

Police in one state have arrested three suspects who they believe kept a group of four mentally-challenged people locked and chained in the basement of  a home in order to steal their government checks. The one woman and two men are all facing charges of criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment and other related charges, according to police. The disturbing discovery of the four people was made Saturday morning when police…