A nursing home that looks like a typical long-term care facility is actually home to a large number of parolees, including registered sex offenders.  According to the state sex offender registry, the facility’s address is listed as home to 27 sex offenders. The 65-resident facility worries some people who live in the surrounding neighborhood. Advocates for the elderly also fear because there is no law requiring nursing homes to alert other residents and their families to the presence of sex…

The daughter of a retired doctor found dead after going missing from a nursing home  says she is angry her father was allowed to walk out of the secured facility. Her father, 87, had severe dementia and diabetes which was controlled by regular medication. The retired doctor’s body was found at about 5pm Saturday in the backyard of an unoccupied property, just 200 meters from the nursing home where he had not been seen since Wednesday afternoon.

A nurse accused of fracturing the arm of an 82-year-old nursing home resident and injuring another waived his right to a preliminary hearing last week. The 31-year-old nurse is charged with felony abuse of a resident resulting in physical harm or great psychological harm and misdemeanor abuse of a resident. Police arrested the nurse on April 20 after investigating the allegations that he grabbed two different residents forcefully by their arms causing injury.

Criminal charges have been laid against a nursing home employee after a 91-year-old resident died of complications from a fall related injury. Police launched an investigation into events at the facility after a relative of the resident contacted them about the woman’s injury. The resident died on April 4th.

A former nurses aide has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a nursing home resident. The victim who couldn’t speak testified against the man by pointing to letters on a board to spell out words. The man, sentenced Wednesday, was convicted May 9 of sexual abuse and other charges.

According to police an 81-year-old man shot and killed his 82-year-old wife, and then killed himself, at a nursing home.  The police chief says the murder-suicide happened last Tuesday at the Samaritan Health Center. The woman was a patient at the nursing home and her husband was visiting. The bodies were discovered by a care worker shortly after noon.