A nursing home aide was charged criminally for physically abusing an 88-year-old wheelchair-bound resident in a nursing home. The woman suffered a broken clavicle and other injuries.   The 42-year-old aide admitted to investigators that while employed as a certified…

McKnight’s Long Term Care on-line news reports that President Obama on Thursday proposed cuts of $17 billion from his new budget for both discretionary spending and entitlement programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Long-term care operators might worry most, however, about…

A 91-year-old grandfather was found dead in a Mooresville field Sunday night, eight hours after he wandered away from an assisted living facility. Several investigations are being conducted, but officials at the facility said it appears that the man, who…

Two caretakers at a nursing home were indicted on charges of stealing pain medication from patients, according to that county’s prosecutor’s office. The two women are both accused of stealing Oxycodone from the nursing facility, according to a spokesman for…

A nursing home aide said she recorded an incident at the end of March involving a patient with Alzheimer’s or dementia being repeatedly sweared at by another aide. She said she also believes her reporting of the incident led to…

A state department of health found that an aide at a nursing home neglected a resident who fell March 9, causing an elbow fracture and hip bruise. An employee of the nursing home was responsible for the neglect by failing…