EEOC Announces Extension of Act Mediation Pilot
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it was extending the pilot program that expanded opportunities to voluntarily resolve charges through mediation through…
More Than Half of Ohio’s Nursing Home Staff Refusing Vaccine as First Round Is Nearly Over
Now that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are finally in the hands of medical professionals ready to vaccinate as many high-risk people as possible, more…
Former CNA Gets 10 Years Prison for Sexually Assaulting Elderly Patients
The 19-year-old former nursing assistant convicted of having inappropriate sexual contact with two patients at a Minocqua nursing home will spend 10 years in prison,…
Oregon Medical Practice Employee Sentenced to Federal Prison for Tax Crimes, Bank Fraud
Anndrea D. Jacobs, 49, the former office manager and bookkeeper for a La Grande, Oregon medical practice was sentenced to federal prison for defrauding two…
LA County Paramedics Told Not to Transport Some Patients with Low Chance of Survival
Paramedics in Southern California are being told to conserve oxygen and not to bring patients to the hospital who have little chance of survival as…
MI Department of Attorney General Updates Human Trafficking Website
With National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month underway and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Attorney General Dana Nessel today…
Freezer Failure at CA Medical Center Forces Emergency Mass Vaccine Distribution
A power failure for the freezer holding the county’s ration of the Moderna vaccines forced an emergency distribution of 850 doses of that vaccine January…
Family Sues over Cold Weather Death of Georgia Man Who Left Madison Veterans Hospital
The family of a Georgia veteran who died in Madison nearly three years ago when he wandered away from the Veterans Hospital in bitterly cold…
NC Woman Charged in Onslow, Accused of Stealing Nursing Home Resident’s Debit Card
The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a New Bern woman they say stole from a resident at a Richlands senior living home and took…
Belgian St. Nick Party for Elderly Leads to 27 Virus Deaths
Authorities in Belgium say a 27th elderly person has died in an outbreak at a nursing home from a super-spreading St. Nick party last month…