Nursing Homes Malpractice Abuse and Neglect

NQF: Serious Reportable Events : Preventing adverse events in healthcare is central to NQF's patient safety efforts. To ensure that all ...

An elderly  nursing home patient  is staying in a New Albany nursing home after family transferred her for her own safety. The elderly woman...

An Ohio nursing supervisor accused of failing to provide help for an injured resident of the Monroe County Care Center was found guilty on ...

On May 31, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an initiative to reduce the rampant misuse and overuse of ...

Kay Lazar, a writer with the Boston Globe Staff today posted this article about the proposed program to reduce the overuse of physchotic dru...

Every American deserves the chance to live out the full measure of their days in health and security. Yet, every year, millions of older A...

On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, individuals and organizations from across the world are urged to raise awareness of the various types ...

Then, in a moment of pointed retaliation, the witness “unequivocally testified” that the nurse aide bent over and bit the resident on the ...

Health officials cited three Massachusetts hospitals in the past six months for wrongly sending away patients from their emergency rooms,...

"Kill me or let me die," were Alan's dying words, one month after the trauma of his forced eviction from a nursing home that ...

Hamill Law Office recently filed a civil wrongful death lawsuit in the Berkshire County, Massachusetts superior court on behalf of the Est...

The family of a Bound Brook woman killed trying to cross Route 22 in 2010 is suing the nursing care facility where she was living at the ti...

A report into the nursing home where seven residents died following a flu outbreak has found there was no procedure for an early detection ...

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...