Investigation into on assisted living facility uncovers a multitude of care issues. The complaints range from sexual abuse and rape to poor distribution of medication and sub-standard living conditions. The facility was looked into after two former employees alerted local…

A State Senator in the North East said she will re-introduce a bill this year that would make it easier to hold the owners of nursing homes criminally responsible for nursing home neglect and abuse in their facilities. The bill…

A former nurse convicted of assaulting three elderly dementia patients at a nursing home has been given a five-month suspended jail sentence. The woman was found guilty of hitting a patient with a pillow, pushing another onto a bed, and…

According to the Chicago Tribune, State and federal authorities have notified one nursing home that it will be shut down unless it quickly remedies serious safety breaches that put “the health and safety of … residents in immediate jeopardy.” The…

One state organized Senate committees yesterday to hear testimony from overworked nursing home staff. The elder advocates and nurses assistants involved in the hearing brought up the issue of falls in nursing homes. They told the Senate that nursing homes…

A state agency says that a local assisted living facility for the elderly failed to keep a violent man from assaulting a resident. After the woman was assaulted in her assisted living center she has been forced to have three…