An assisted living center that’s giving up its state license to avoid government oversight and regulation is facing $16,000 in additional fines. At the same time, the family of a resident who was seriously injured at the facility is taking issue…

Fire officials credit an alarm and sprinkler system for preventing what could have been a potentially tragic fire at an assisted living facility. “If the sprinkler system wasn’t there, people wouldn’t have gotten out of there. No way,” said the…

Experts say the horrific abuse that allegedly occurred last week at a $5,500-a-month assisted-living center is not uncommon among the vulnerable population in the loosely regulated industry. One elder-abuse expert noted that assisted-living facilities, unlike nursing homes, receive no governmental…

A former aide at an assisted living facility received a prison sentence Wednesday after admitting she assaulted a patient in her care. The 32-year-old woman was sentenced to four to 23 months after pleading guilty to a charge of simple…

The state report says that a nurse’s note indicated that the man was going outside the facility to smoke and was found hanging about 20 minutes later, the report states. A nursing home has been fined $90,000 after a state…

A licensed caretaker is in custody on suspicion of raping an elderly woman at a residential health-care facility. The woman, who is in her 80’s, told authorities on Wednesday that she had been raped Friday night, said the sheriff’s department….