A registered nurse recently surrendered her license to practice to the State Education Department after an investigation by the State Office of Medicaid Inspector General. The nurse had verbally and physically abused patients. She forcibly held down a resident while giving care, calling the resident an ‘evil witch’,” according to the report.

Police are investigating the death of an 89-year-old Alzheimer’s patient who died at his nursing home after a fight with his new roommate. The man’s 74-year-old roommate, also believed to have Alzheimer’s, was taken the hospital in non-critical condition. The man’s daughter says her father had been a patient there for three months, and had just gotten his new roommate over the weekend.

A 70-year-old man is being praised as a good Samaritan for visiting nursing home residents near his home for 28 years.  The man had visited residents for years (probably over a thousand times) without having any problems with the management. In recent years, at the facility’s activities director’s request, he lead some religious services at the facility and played violin for the residents.  However, recently the man found terrible abuse at the facility and started reporting it to the s…

The family of a 9-year-old boy is thankful today that the child is safe after a nursing home patient stole their van. That patient, Steven Thornburg, lead troopers and deputies on a 100 mile per hour chase from Washington County, Va. to Chuckey, Tennessee.

A bedridden patient who predicted he wouldn’t survive a move from hospital which was shut down has died three weeks after his transfer to a nursing home, family and friends said last week. the 58-year-old patient had muscular dystrophy and breathed with a ventilator. His death has called into question the transfer of patients from the hospital to other facilities.

One state has begun shutting down a personal care home after persistent care issues. According to the Deputy Attorney General, the facility, which has been cited for numerous health and safety violations regarding improper care of residents, could no longer stay open because of financial and safety concerns. The facilities many issues include felony charges against two former administrators, the freezing death of a resident who walked away from the home in 2007, and numerous department of health…