A former nursing home administrator has been charged with stealing $217,000 from nursing home patients. She admitted to supporting her gambling habits with money taken from residents trust accounts. She wrote herself checks or wrote checks to cash in order to steal the money.Crimes against the elderly are appalling and will never be tolerated by my office,” said the attorney general in a release.

The family of a former patient has filed a lawsuit against the nursing home facility where he was a patient. The lawsuit alleges abuse caught on video. The video shows at least 6 nursing home employees antagonizing the patient suffering from dementia. The staff coerced the patient to remove his briefs and went on to taunt him.

A lawsuit has been filed against a nursing home facility for allowing a patient to suffer infection to the point amputation was required. The patient was admitted to the nursing home facility following a surgery on her ankle. The physician's order required the surgical site be kept clean. The patient had a nurse friend who smelled a foul odor upon visiting the patient at the nursing home.

A recent study shows that patients experience a higher rate of neglect at for-profit nursing homes than non-profit nursing homes. The study reviewed 1,150 seniors treated at 5 hospitals in a large city. The treatment involved severe dehydration in residents with feeding tubes, bed sores, broken catheters and improper medication management.“We saw more — and more serious — diagnoses among residents of for-profit facilities that were consistent with severe clinical signs of neglect,” said an assoc…

Today wraps closes infection prevention week as risk factors are highlighted by government and healthcare professionals. The goal is to reduce infection in elderly who suffer from lowered immune systems and open sores. Many elderly are typically in long-term care and assisted living facilities where infections occur and spread often. Every year 1 – 3 million infections occur.

Following reports of misconduct, eight employees at a state run nursing home facility were fired. As a result of the misconduct, one of the patients was allegedly injured. A disability rights organization is looking into the conduct of employees and treatment of patients along with the state. “I would say abuse, neglect and exploration,” said one of the representatives of the state disability rights group.