A 62-year-old nursing home resident is accused of beating and murdering a 72-year-old patient who ate his lunch. On August 21, a patient who suffered from dementia wandered into another patient’s room at a nursing home and began eating the…

A pharmacist’s mistake cost the life of one nursing home resident, investigators from the state Health Department have concluded. The pharmacist sent the wrong formulation of a powerful antifungal drug that caused the nursing home resident’s kidneys to fail and…

An elderly woman died from an infection after a severe foot wound was dismissed as a blister by hospital staff. The 86-year-old woman was treated at the hospital, but staff failed to dress her foot appropriately and sent her back…

A nursing home dinner of pot roast, green beans and potatoes may have proved fatal for a 72-year-old nursing home resident. Prosecutors say, a fellow resident at the nursing home was furious after the man had sneaked into his room…

Earlier this week, an 87-year-old assisted living facility resident died when he strayed away from his assisted living home. The man, who suffered from alzheimers, went outside the facility at 2:30 a.m. into three degree weather wearing only a t-shirt…

In a potentially devastating move, state regulators have cut off Medicare and Medicaid funding for all new patients at one nursing home after inspectors discovered critical treatment errors, including neglect that culminated in the deaths of two residents. The Rehab…