In Florida, day care centers, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and group homes have hired thousands of felons to care for children, seniors and the disabled despite a law requiring background checks to screen all potential employees. Many of these…

A Roanoke area nursing home permitted a patient to fall and sustain a right intertrochanteric hip fracture, for which surgery was required.  On admission to the facility, the patient was a fall risk.  She had fallen at the facility eight times before the fall that fractured…

Two women who worked at a nursing home facility were arrested for taking nude photos of their elderly patients on cell phones. The state authorities said a 50-year-old certified nurse assistant (CNA) and a 35-year-old CNA were arrested Wednesday after…

A nursing home ombudsman for a mid-west state told legislators that the state’s program to evaluate nursing homes is flawed. Further, flaws in the ranking system mislead state residents who search for quality care and rewarding facilities that barely meet…

A Central Virginia assisted living facility operated a locked dementia unit as a “safe secure environment” for patients with serious cognitive impairments due to a primary psychiatric diagnosis of dementia who could not recognize danger or protect their own safety and welfare.   A female patient (Patient No. 1)…

Thursday brought an early morning scare for the family of an 80-year-old woman who went missing from her nursing home around 5:30 a.m. Attendants at the home heard the alarm go off from someone opening one of the doors. They…