We recently obtained an excellent settlement in the case of an elderly female patient of a Northern Virginia nursing home who was permitted to fall on multiple occasions.  As a result of the falls, the patient sustained an intertrochanteric fracture of the right hip and a comminuted…

Nicholas Dant didn’t have much time. He was building a gazebo at a nursing home for his Eagle Scout project and had to complete it before his 18th birthday. Dant, who graduated from high school in May, worked into the…

An elderly man, staying at an assisted living center, is accused of hitting another resident who was in his 60s in the head with a hammer, police said. The 79-year-old temporary resident was charged with aggravated battery. Police do not…

A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services identifies up to 136 nursing homes as “special focus facilities” subject to more…

The family of a 90-year-old nursing home resident who died after months of screaming over a fractured left femur that would not heal is suing the home. The woman’s femur shattered on February 6, when a hammock sling used by…

More than 100 registered sex offenders live in Ohio nursing homes — their convictions for rape, gross sexual imposition and sexual battery generally kept secret from other residents and their families. A gap in state law requiring notification of anybody…