An out-of-state nursing home has received a Type A citation, the most serious citation that state can give, for alleged abuse and neglect, and the federal government has said it will terminate its Medicare and Medicaid funding. A spokeswoman for the state confirmed…

A community hospital’s probation has been extended after state investigators uncovered more than 30 new public health code violations, including one in which a 13-inch surgical instrument was left inside a patient’s abdomen for more than two weeks following surgery. The…

Authorities Sunday found a woman with dementia who walked away from an assisted living home Friday, a sheriff’s spokesman said. The 61-year-old woman was found safe and in good health and was returned to her care home Sunday. She was last seen leaving…

A former nursing home aide has pleaded guilty to abusing residents.  The 25-year-old female aide admitted wrong doings against three of the six nursing home residents whom she was accused of abusing at the facility.  From her employment period of October 2006…

A 46-year-old nursing home patient died from dehydration after only a nine-day stay at the facility. Her death is being reviewed as “suspicious” by the state’s Bureau of Investigation after the medical examiner labeled the death a homicide, blaming poor treatment. The autopsy…

The shape of a wound may now provide new insight into how the injury will heal. According to researchers at the University of Arizona’s Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance and La Jolla’s Advanced BioHealing, certain wound shapes seem to heal…