Judge blocks NY AG investigators from getting Syracuse nursing home records
A Syracuse nursing home can withhold some records the state Attorney General’s office wants as part of its investigation of alleged neglect, abuse and deaths…
SC Hospital Employee Dies Following Patient Assault
A South Carolina hospital employee died after being hit by a patient on May 27. According to the Sumter Police Department, a woman, 27, was…
Illinois Nursing Home Accused of Negligence Leading to Resident’s Death
An Illinois nursing home has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that negligence led to the death of a resident.
Florida Nursing Home Resident Arrested for Stalking
A Grand Villa Nursing Home resident is facing cyberstalking and trespassing charges, according to jail records released to Boca Post by the Palm Beach County…
Noxious Odors Sicken Residents at New York Nursing Home
An Orange County nursing home had a Hazmat scare Monday evening, after residents complained there was some kind of noxious odor in the building and…
California Has a Unique Problem with Hospice Fraud. Can Legislation Stop it?
The Northern California woman with a chronic illness was receiving home health services, but she wasn’t terminally ill; so, when her son learned that a…
NM AG Secures Prison Sentence for POA Accused of Financially Exploiting Nursing Home Resident
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced that Guadalupe Evelyn Kingston, who held power of attorney for a nursing home resident, was sentenced to five…
Jury Awards $2.5M to Georgia Senior Living Resident’s Family after Fire Ant Attack
A jury recently awarded $2.5 million to the family of a 92-year-old woman who died after fire ants at her assisted living facility stung her…
Decolonization strategy reduces MRSA colonization at multiple body sites
A new analysis of a randomized clinical trial shows that a repeated post-discharge decolonization regimen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers reduced MRSA colonization overall…
Suburban Chicago Home Sleep Testing Company to Pay $3.5M to Settle Federal Healthcare Fraud Suit
A suburban Chicago diagnostics company that provides home sleep testing will pay $3.5 million to the United States to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the…