A nursing home operator has stated that at least 11 people have been killed at one Joplin nursing home hit hard by the tornado that devastated the southwest Missouri city.  Bill Mitchell, who operates Greenbriar nursing home on the city’s south side, said 10 residents and a staff member were killed when four vehicles were tossed into the building. The overall death toll from the tornado is well over 100 and still climbing, making it the single deadliest tornado since the National Weather Se…

According to court testimony, safety failures in a nursing home led to the death of a resident asphyxiated when she became trapped in her bed. The 89-year-old woman died when her head and neck became lodged between the headboard and side rails fitted to stop her falling out. According to court records, a similar incident occurred just three weeks before the woman’s death but no changes were made.

A 22-year-old woman has been charged with theft after she allegedly stole from an elderly man in her care. The caregiver has been charged with theft after she wrote several checks to herself from 78-year-old man’s just weeks before his death. The caregiver was employed by a home care group to assist the elderly man, who resided in an assisted-living facility.

An investigation into nursing homes in one state has uncovered a startling trend. In emergency situations, nursing home employees are commonly refusing to call 911, but rather calling hired help miles away. For one woman who suffered a heart attack at in a nursing home on March 5, the emergency transportation guidelines failed her.

A former nursing home administrator is facing sentencing for obstruction of justice. The administrator allegedly was dishonest during a federal health care fraud investigation. She was scheduled to be sentenced Monday in federal court.

Police arrested a woman for allegedly stealing over $287,000 from an elderly man while working as a caregiver in a retirement community. The woman, age 31, worked for the 81-year-old victim at the retirement community since 2007. She is accused of accessing the man’s checkbook and writing checks to herself from the victim’s personal bank accounts without his consent.