Anchorage Doctor Pleads Guilty for Prescribing Medically Unnecessary Opioids
Anchorage, Alaska — Michael Don Robertson, 67, an Anchorage physician, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit controlled substance fraud and one count…
Telemarketer and His Companies Agree to Pay $2.5 Million to Settle Allegations
United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez and U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey for the Eastern District of Tennessee announce that Scott Roix, together with several…
Illinois Nursing Home Fined $25k after Losing Resident
The Illinois Department of Public Health has fined a Bloomington nursing home $25,000 for letting a 49-year-old woman with dementia wander away from the facility…
When can nursing homes make decisions for ‘incapacitated’ residents?
When “Gloria A.” was admitted into a nursing home in late 2012, the 63-year-old truck driver was deemed “incapacitated” by a doctor.
County Spent $12k so Far on Toilet Paper Caper
A suspected theft of fewer than a dozen rolls of toilet paper from a Wisconsin nursing facility has cost Rock County taxpayers over $12,000 in…
Car Gets Stuck in Stairwell after Crash into Pennsylvania Nursing Home
A bizarre scene unfolded at a nursing home in Upper Gwynedd after a vehicle crashed into a building and wound up stuck inside a stairwell.
Suspicious Package Sent to Pennsylvania Nursing Home
A suspicious package delivered to a Warren County nursing home was not an explosive, but the results were still upsetting.
Texas patient’s body set on fire as medical staff attempt CPR
San Antonio Police and Fire reports reveal a 70-year-old patient’s heart stopped and the defibrillator used by the medical team arced, igniting the oxygen in…
Cancer patient ends up covered in bugs at Detroit hospital
A cancer patient went to Henry Ford Hospital for treatment and ended up covered in bed bugs in his room.
Woman of 102 suspected of care home murder in France
A 102-year-old woman is suspected of having murdered her 92-year-old neighbor in a French retirement home.