Nursing Homes Malpractice Abuse and Neglect

HOUSTON (KTRK) --  an elderly woman who was allegedly attacked by a nursing home employee has died, not from the alleged attack, but from a...

"Three employees at a well-known Delaware County nursing home are facing appalling charges. The District Attorney's Office is charg...

EUGENE, Ore. - A nursing home employee accused of sexually abusing a female resident pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Friday morning and wa...

Two employees at a Wheatfield nursing home “joined in humiliating, distressing and violating the dignity” of two residents last April, accor...

Information and Contacts Public Information Requests Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Division of Health Care Quality 99 ...

A study published in the March 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine  included the following findings on Nursing Homes: Five la...

Atrium Abuser Sentenced Wed. 3-30-11. Quincy District Court, Quincy, MA. Update: April 6, 2011: Kara Murphy, The Certified Nurse Aid wh...

National Disability Rights Network

National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care has published a "Consumer's Guide to Choices and Advocacy" entitled "P...

A New York Times investigation found widespread problems in the more than 2,000 state-run homes. In hundreds of cases reviewed by The Times,...

From the Hill.com "If elder abuse happened to me, Mickey Rooney, it can happen to anyone." With this statement last week before th...

A former employee of the Williamsville Suburban Nursing Home in Amherst, NY was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to falsifying records...

Residents' Rights Month is an annual event designated by the Consumer Voice and is celebrated in October to honor residents living in al...

A Walker County jury found Country Crossing Assisted Living, its owner Travis Thompson and Hutcheson Home Heath Care liable in the death of ...

Two proposals aimed at preventing and investigating abuse of nursing home patients appear to be dead or stalled in the ongoing state legisla...