According to police, autopsy results for a woman who died last month show she was the victim of nursing home neglect. the 75-year-old woman died May 16 in a nursing home. She had been placed in the nursing home just six weeks before her death  by the state Department of Social Services.

A nursing home is being stripped of its eligibility to receive Medicare or Medicaid payments for residents because of financial and care related problems, state Health Department officials confirmed last week.  The nursing home has been given 30 days to relocate the residents whose care will no longer be funded. Nearly all of the facilities 23 residents were receiving Medicare or Medicaid assistance. State inspectors cited the nursing home for both physical care and financial issues in rece…

A group home that was investigated in April after a neighbor witnessed a fire in the front yard of the home is under investigation again. The neighbors called the fire department after they saw a client ignite a shrub in the yard of the group home. The April investigation resulted in a $500 fine.

Police have launched a criminal investigation at one nursing home where medications have been going missing. Three employees have been fired in connection with the missing medications but no arrests have been made. Nursing home officials said that dangerous drugs like Xanax and Hydrocodone disappeared from medication carts inside the nursing home.

Police released a picture from a security camera last week of a smiling woman leaving a nursing home where a resident had just been stabbed to death. Someone called in to Crime Stoppers with a tip, and the police department announced that the smiling woman from the security camera had been arrested and charged with murder. According to police, the 48-year-old has confessed to the May 7 stabbing.

A nursing home has paid a $20,000 state fine and fired five employees after an incident in 2009 in which a blind female resident with dementia drowned in a puddle about 200 feet away, state records show. The resident left the facility between 2 and 4 a.m. through a door with the alarm turned off on November 12, 2009, a state report said.