According to The Mountain Press, one of two women accused of taking compromising pictures and videos of patients under her care at a care and rehab center pleaded guilty to the charges against her in exchange for a lighter sentence….

One nursing home could lose its ability to participate in Medicaid and Medicare Services after an investigation by the state Department of Health and Human Services revealed care deficiencies which “constituted ‘immediate jeopardy’ to resident health and safety”. The investigation…

A registered nurse was indicted yesterday with a charge of second-degree murder in the death of an Alzheimer’s patient at a nursing home, authorities said. The woman, 44, was also charged with six additional counts of felony patient abuse. Following…

According to a recent study, stiffening of the aging brain’s blood vessels reduces their ability to respond to changes in blood pressure, increasing the risk of falls by as much as 70%. This change in the arteries is only one…

Police are searching for a man who was reported missing two weeks ago from a local nursing home. The 54  year-old man was reported missing from the a rest home where he has lived for several years. The man had…

One state enacted a law in 2007 requiring hospitals to immediately report occurrences of what they call “never events.”  Such events include severe bedsores, operating on the wrong body part, and leaving objects inside a patient after surgery, and the…