According to a recent online news feature entitled “Trouble Afoot” in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living, pressure ulcers (pressure sores, bed sores, bedsores, decubitus ulcers) are occurring more frequently across all patient populations, including those in nursing homes.  Because patients with complex conditions are living longer,…

The Texas Attorney General’s office recently sued a nursing home sued for neglect.  The nursing home, which operates as Brookhaven Nursing Center and is owned and managed by Diversified Healthcare LLC, passed only one state inspection in eight years, according to state records.  The lawsuit seeks a court…

An 89-year-old nursing home patient died from burn injuries she sustained while smoking on the nursing home’s patio.  The nursing home aide responsible for supervising the patient and seven others was in the facility’s kitchen, came outside, saw the victim’s dress on fire, extinguished the fire, and called…

An 81-year-old patient of an assisted living facility was hit by a car on a highway near the facility and killed.  According to witnesses, she walked onto the highway and into the side of a moving eighteen-wheeler.  She received severe head, arm, and leg injuries and was taken by…

The Finance Committee of the United States Senate recently passed the Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act, which seeks to establish a nationwide system of criminal background checks for nursing home employees.  Criminal background checks would be required to ensure that individuals who apply…

The license of an assisted living facility was recently suspended by state regulators after a resident of the facility was permitted to wander away (elope) from the facility. The resident, who was insulin dependent and had schizophrenia, still has not…