Two former owners and operators of assisted living facilities were arrested for failing to get the required licenses to operate the facilities. The arrests came after an investigation by the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and law enforcement officers with…

Several residents of a nursing home suffered repeated physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their fellow residents in 2006-07, a pattern of violence that nursing home management failed to stem or report, state officials alleged. Abuses uncovered at…

A nursing home was cited by its state department of health for resident neglect after it improperly set and monitored his feeding tube last July. This neglect nearly resulted in his death. After the feeding tube was reset, the resident…

An elderly woman was found dead after she managed to walk away from an assisted living facility.“It’s a tragedy,” said the sheriff. “It’s just a terrible, terrible thing.” The last few minutes of the 84-year-old woman’s life were no doubt…

A nursing home was fined by the state after a patient received the wrong dose of an anti-seizure medication for 40 days. The error was not discovered until the patient suffered a seizure. The facility didn’t have a system to…

A group of teenagers working at a nursing home abused and sexually humiliated elderly residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, prosecutors allege. The six young female caregivers were named yesterday in criminal complaints charging them with a variety of…