A certified nursing assistant at a nursing home is charged with choking and punching one of the facility’s residents. The 29-year-old employee was arrested Thursday morning for a felony battery charge after police were called to the home in reference…

Authorities are investigating the death of a resident of a nursing home who fell to her death Thursday morning. The local police chief said the body of the 89-year-old woman was found shortly after 6 a.m. below the window of…

A demented hospice patient of a Roanoke area nursing home was permitted to gain access to and ingest a chemical floor stripper.  The nursing home knew in the months, weeks, and days before the ingestion that the patient’s judgment and decision-making were impaired and…

A Lynchburg area assisted living facility’s patient began over a weekend to exhibit clinical symptoms that were for him highly unusual: back pain of unknown source; staying in bed; decreased appetite; and urinary incontinence.  During this time, the assisted living facility did not contact…

A quadriplegic Australian man who won the right to refuse sustenance from his nursing home in order to starve to death, died Monday at the age of 49. The controversial court case piqued the attention of long-term care providers across…

An aide at a Richmond nursing home permitted a completely immobile bed bound patient to fall from bed.  As a result of the fall, the patient sustained comminuted spiral fractures of her right and left fumurs.   The patient did not receive surgery for…