HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — After CBS 6's reporting into the state's delayed and backlogged efforts to inspect and investigate Virginia's nursing homes, the health department completed a complaint ...
WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va (WCHS) — A Wayne County nurse is facing three counts of abuse or neglect of an incapacitated adult after being accused of failing to give nursing home residents medication. Jamie ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. A Rochester family is now preparing for a funeral on Friday. The nursing home once called The Shore Winds has a new name, Waterview Heights. But the family says the nursing home is ...
Syracuse, N.Y. – A Syracuse nursing home resident suffered a heart attack and kidney failure after being given another resident’s medications by mistake, according to a state Health Department ...
Unfortunately, nursing home abuse occurs more frequently than you might think, even in the Puget Sound region. While many forms of abuse leave physical marks (like a scratch or bruise), some forms of ...
Type 2 diabetes overtreatment among nursing home residents is common, with few residents having their medication regimens appropriately deintensified, according to results published in the Journal of ...
A resident at a nursing home in Buffalo, Minn., did not receive her newly prescribed potassium-replacement medication, an oversight connected to her death in January 2010, a state investigation ...
Syracuse, N.Y. – Michael Schalk’s phone rang at 6 a.m. July 29. It was his father’s roommate calling from Bishop Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. “Your father fell again,” Schalk says the man told ...
A resident of Quinnipiac Valley Center nursing home in Wallingford had a fatal heart attack in February after the staff failed to give her all of her prescribed medications for several days, an ...
Navy veteran Randy Krall was so dehydrated when he was rushed from a veterans nursing home in Union Grove to a hospital that doctors had trouble getting a urine sample to diagnose what was wrong with ...