When a 73-year-old woman entered a nursing home in 2005 after she fell and injured her arm she thought she would receive therapy and be home in a month. Two years later, after repeated denied requests to go home, the…

Another person has been charged in a case of nursing home residents who were allegedly drugged against their will. An administrator was charged on eight felony counts of elder abuse for allowing staff to forcibly administer psychotropic medications to patients…

A Portsmouth nursing home is one of five in Virginia to be awarded a grant in a new state initiative to improve nursing home care. Autumn Care in Portsmouth will receive $40,865 during the next year for a proposed effort to…

The Lynchburg News & Advance reported last week that an Ohio man convicted of targeting local seniors and defrauding government health care programs out of millions of dollars in a wheelchair scam was sentenced to seven years and eight months…

According to an investigation by a Bristol, Virginia, newspaper, reports of a nursing home aide’s sexual assaults of elderly residents were thrown in the trash. In early July 2007, four National Healthcare Bristol nursing home employees penned their accusations that…

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing will lead an innovative effort to raise the number of college-educated geriatrics nurses in Arkansas nursing homes thanks to $250,000 awarded today by the national Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future…