Residents of the assisted-living center say that staff there ignored requests to check on an elderly woman who was found dead in her apartment this week. The resident, is believed to have died in her apartment at the assisted living…

State senators held a hearing yesterday to examine ways to improve safety at nursing homes, where a high number of mentally ill, felons reside.These residents have led to reports of assaults, rape and even murder in such nursing homes. Legislators…

The United States Department of Justice announced that the nation’s largest nursing home pharmacy, Omnicare Inc. of Covington, Kentucky, will pay $98 million, and drug manufacturer, IVAX Pharmaceuticals of Weston, Florida, will pay $14 million to resolve allegations that Omnicare…

Women at an assisted living facility kept their hands busy this month on a project to make others more comfortable. The residents are making pillows to send to soldiers stationed overseas. “We’re sending the pillows to Afghanistan,” one resident explained….

The Chicago Tribune recently reported on a disturbing trend: nursing home and other health care facilities which are cited for inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs while the doctors who prescribe the drugs are not reprimanded at all. The newspaper shared…

The owner and operator of a closed-down assisted living facility was charged Friday with offenses that could lead to prison time. The 62-year-old owner and operator of the assisted living facility is accused of filing $192,000 in false claims with…