Cameras should be allowed in nursing homes, and nursing home owners should be required to carry liability insurance and keep better records, several residents told a state representative at a legislative hearing on Monday. One woman said she secretly put a video…

A month prior to one nursing home’s employe being charged with felony caretaker abuse, the state’s investigators cited that nursing home for failing to protect its residents from abuse, records show. A review by a local newspaper also shows several nursing…

Nursing homes and other facilities which have a predominant Hispanic resident population generally provide care which is substandard to care provided at facilities primarily servicing whites, say Brown University researchers who focused on pressure ulcer care. Investigators examined Minimum Data Set and federal…

In a cinderblock nursing home, cradled in the Blue Ridge Mountains surrounding the twin cities of Bristol, Tenn., and Bristol, Va., workers say a predator stalked the elderly in its halls. They say that for nearly a decade, he fondled,…

Police have arrested a woman suspected in a nursing home abuse case. According to an arrest affidavit, the 21-year-old aide abused an 80-year-old woman on March 22, 2009. One of the nursing staff, the affidavit states, noticed the victim’s door…

An employee of a nursing home was arrested for allegedly hitting a resident who has Alzheimer’s disease. The sheriff’s office said that the 28-year-old employee was arrested at the nursing home for aggravated battery to a senior citizen for hitting…