Nursing Homes Malpractice Abuse and Neglect

Glori Law and Susan Petrie's father was living in a nursing home just 10 days when they learned he was being attacked by another resid...

Not enough food for nursing home residents . Little air conditioning or heat. Roofs leaking to the point that barrels and plastic sheets we...

A woman used a high-resolution video surveillance camera to record a nurse beating her mother in a nursing care home. She placed the camera...

From April 29th Boston Globe: an article about excessive medication of our nursing home elders who should not be on anti-pyschotic med: ...

Two years into the state's fight to close a troubled South Side nursing home, the facility remains open and even has successfully boote...

Nursing homes remained “highly profitable” despite Medicare reimbursement cuts, but they’re still providing inferior elder care , says citi...

Incomplete documentation can dramatically affect a malpractice case. In the ideal world all pertinent observations and interventions are r...

It's always a tough decision to put a loved one in a nursing home . For Sandra Croteau it was made even more difficult by the fact that ...

More than a month ago two nurse assistants at Bandera Road's Princeton Place nursing home started noticing problems. Sandra Lujan, a f...

Never swab a decubitus ulcer unless that ulcer is clearly infected. Dr. Allen says it’s important to know that it doesn’t make sense to cu...

A 42-year-old man has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding after police say he attacked an elderly resident at a nursing home T...

I waas quoted in this weeks Lawyers Weekly article on Arbitrations in the nursing home context. In an article by Eric T. Berkman, an attorne...

Southwest Florida can be a retiree’s paradise — but that also makes it an ideal place to prey on the elderly. At a public forum Tuesday, th...

A single photo of a resident’s decubitus ulcer on Facebook and/or YouTube is perhaps one of a long term care facility’s worst nightmares. ...

The Fifth District Appellate Court has upheld a Madison County plaintiff's verdict in a case that was tried twice against Rosewood Care ...