A Connecticut-based long-term care management company operating nursing homes across southern New England has agreed to pay $1.75 million and adopt a series of critical…
A former home health aide has been sentenced to 23 years in state prison for the assault of a special needs teen patient in 2020,…
Long-Term Care facilities (LTCs) have been authorized to administer single-dose Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to all residents. The announcement was made on December 15, 2022, by…
A Shirley woman pleaded guilty to bilking money from the bank accounts of 11 developmentally disabled residents in her care at a nursing facility, Suffolk…
A network of three hospitals in Brooklyn, New York, has had to work off paper charts for weeks following a cyberattack on its computer systems…
Two residents in wheelchairs got into a fight at Grand Pointe Assisted Living Dec. 13 when one accidentally bumped into the other in a hallway.
On 12/15/2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a settlement with a Florida healthcare…
A North Iowa nursing home where a resident was smoking methamphetamine and a nurse allegedly left residents in fear for their safety could be facing…
In 2012, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care to reduce the use of dangerous…
The Division of Consumer Affairs issued an alert to support healthcare practitioners in their efforts to protect patient data and information from disclosure.