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Charges Against Nurse Have Now Led to a Proposed $20,000 Fine for Nursing Home
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has received recommendations to fine one nursing home $20,000, according to officials who conducted an investigation of the nursing home after the death of one of its patients. A 97-page report based on…
Woman Steals Morphine from Nursing Home then Uses it to Poison Her Husband
Alan Duvall died in August 2007 after having dinner with his wife at their home, but his family immediately had questions about his wife’s involvement in his death. Tami Duvall, 51, now has been charged with murder, insurance fraud and…
Nursing Home Bookkeepper Charged with Theft Totaling More Than $400,000 from Nursing Home
A woman has been charged with stealing more than $400,000 from the nursing home where she worked for more than 10 years. Officers with the State Bureau of Investigation arrested the 46-year-old, on Wednesday after she was indicted by the…
Virginia Beach Assisted Living Resident Found After Wandering From Nursing Home
A man with Alzheimer’s who was missing from an assisted living facility in Va. Beach was found late last night in Portsmouth. James A. Brandon, 63, who also has diabetes,was discovered missing from his assisted living style apartment complex around…
State Inspectors Move to Close Down Nursing Home for Unsafe Conditions
State regulators are acting to revoke the license of a nursing home that houses about 130 mentally ill residents. The residential care home has been cited for numerous violations involving residents’ safety. Such events were described by state inspectors as…
Senior Olympics Held for Elderly Nursing Home Residents
One community center was filled with more than two hundred people, Tuesday afternoon for the Senior Olympics. Residents from nursing homes all over the region came out to participate. The Nursing Home Olympics started in 1987 as a celebration of…