Nursing home patients have been evacuated and transported to other facilities in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Nursing home owners are taking greater precautions after the deaths of a dozen nursing home patients last year. The deaths were due to power outages that stopped air conditioning units from working. The heat killed multiple patients whose bodies could not withstand the increased temperatures.

Nursing home owners have pleaded guilty to allowing a nursing home to be understaffed in connection with a patient's death. The patient was left in a recliner for more than 41 hours without medical care in 2016. The nursing home received new owners the following year. The convicted owners that allowed the insufficient staffing will be sentenced next month.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a nursing home employee for the abuse of a nursing home patient. The patient was choked, slapped and hit for soiling himself. The employee was videotaped by a coworker on a cell phone. The video was brought to administration who called the police to file a report.

A nursing home is under investigation for a patient's death. The patient died in a whirlpool tub after asking to take a bath. The facility staff noted that the patient enjoyed long baths and would check on patient's every 5-10 minutes.

A nursing home patient is speaking out against abuse she and her roommate experienced. The nursing home employee was physically and verbally abusive throwing her in the bed and forcing the patient's roommate to do more than she could physically hande. “When she came over, she grabbed me by this arm and by my feet like you put a baby in the bed…threw me in there. Threw me in the bed,” the patient said.

A nursing home has been fined more than $9,000 following an incident involving two residents. One resident threatened another resident with a butter knife saying he would slit the patient’s throat and drink his blood. Several encounters with threats and an attempt to obtain knives from the cafeteria lead to multiple citations. The facility then failed to put interventions in place in the patient’s care plan to prevent future incidents.