The Nursing Home Attorneys Iowa Nursing Home Cited by State for Resident’s Death from COVID:  Upon investigating the suspected wrongful death of a male resident of Regency Care Center, state inspectors discovered numerous un-investigated nursing home malpractice complaints against the facility. An Iowa nursing home has been cited by the state for causing the death of a resident with COVID, says an article on Iowa Capital Dispatch. As per the article, Iowa state inspectors say a male resident of the Regency Care Center in Norwalk, who was suffering from COVID-19, was not properly assessed ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent: The wrongful death lawsuit brought against Prosperity Pointe, an assisted living and memory care facility in Knox County, claims negligence amounting to nursing home malpractice resulted in the resident’s death. A nursing home malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit has been brought against a Tennessee nursing home after a resident with dementia drank laundry detergent and died, says a news article on wbir.com. According to the complaint filed against Knox County’s  Prosperity Po ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Biden Administration Proposes Minimum Staffing Rule to Combat Nursing Home Malpractice The Biden administration has released a proposed rule requiring nursing homes to meet a minimum staffing level, a Washington Post article reports. The rule, said Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, is intended to help address the persistent crisis of understaffing in American nursing homes and to ensure residents get a higher level of quality care. If implemented, the rule, drafted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), will require that nursing ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Hospitalized Residents’ Serious Health Problems went Undetected by North Carolina Nursing Home, State Inspection Report Finds The Hunter Woods Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been repeatedly cited for violations amounting to nursing home malpractice by regulators, and scores a single star out of five in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 5-Star Quality Rating System. At least two hospitalized residents of a North Carolina nursing home had serious health conditions that went undetected by staff, says a recent Charlotte O ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Nursing Home Malpractice Continues to Violate Veterans’ Rights in New Jersey State-Run Veteran Homes The poor care and incidence of nursing home malpractice that allowed two New Jersey veterans homes to fall victim to widespread COVID-19 outbreaks early in the pandemic have not been remedied, say federal investigators. A recent Department of Justice investigation has revealed that hygiene and infection control violations continue to persist in two New Jersey veterans nursing homes where COVID-19 was permitted to run rampant early in 2020, says a CNN article. The Para ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys A Michigan certified nursing assistant allegedly engaged in false charting, a common type of nursing home malpractice, after her alleged negligence contributed to the choking death of a resident in her care. A staff member at a Michigan nursing home has been charged with elder abuse and falsifying medical records in the wake of the choking death of a 58-year-old resident, says a Detroit News article. According to the Michigan Attorney General’s Office, a certified nursing assistant at MediLodge of Richmond allegedly neglected to follow explicit mealtime directions, l ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Battering a Resident with Dementia Charged to Virginia Nursing Home Employee Camera footage reveals a nursing home worker grabbing an elderly resident’s wrists, engaging in verbal abuse, and otherwise committing nursing home malpractice at Brickyard Healthcare in Richmond, Virginia. A now-former employee at a Virginia nursing home has been charged with battering a resident following multiple incidents of nursing home malpractice captured on video, says an article on Pal Item. Cody A. Madden, 33, since fired from his position as a certified nurse’s aide at Brickyard H ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Nursing Home Administrators in Bucks County Sentenced to Jail for Neglecting to Report Sexual Assault of Three Dementia Patients:  In an egregious act of nursing home malpractice, two former administrators at The Landing of Southampton filed sanitized incident reports that neglected to document the sexual assaults of three dementia patients by a fourth patient at their assisted living facility. Two former Bucks County nursing home administrators were recently sentenced to time in jail for failing to report the sexual assaults of three dementia patients by anothe ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Pennsylvania Nursing Home Owner and Administrators Charged with Falsifying Staffing Records: Federal Trial Begins:  Years of Medicaid and Medicare fraud has been alleged at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness and Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness, two Pennsylvania facilities that repeatedly have been cited for violations amounting to nursing home malpractice. The criminal trial has begun for a co-owner of two Pennsylvania nursing homes and several of his former administrators who were indicted last year for multiple charges of nursing home malpractice rel ..read more

The Nursing Home Attorneys Illinois Nurse Federally Indicted for Diluting Nursing Home Patient’s Morphine In a gross act of nursing home malpractice, a registered nurse allegedly took an Illinois nursing home patient’s morphine and attempted to conceal this act by swapping the prescribed medication with morphine diluted with another liquid. An Illinois nurse faces federal criminal charges after prosecutors alleged she tampered with a nursing home patient’s prescribed morphine, says a CBS News article. According to the indictment against her, Nickole Butler, 40, while working as a registered nu ..read more