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A New Hampshire nurse’s aide is facing serious charges after she was caught trying to sell stolen jewelry at a pawn store. 24-year-old Megan Lakos was arrested last Thursday, accused of stealing jewelry from the patients at the nursing home she was employed at and then trying to sell the goods at...

Fresno County has been experiencing an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease – and three weeks ago a resident of a nursing home in northeast Fresno was diagnosed with the respiratory illness. County health officials were able to confirm last week that a resident at Horizon Health & Subacute Center ...

There is a saying that chutzpah can be defined by the attitude needed to ask a court for mercy because you’re an orphan after killing your parents. While not quite that brazen, a former nursing home worker from Gwinnett County did ask for clemency after her attack on a dementia patient. Unfortunatel...

Nursing home residents can become victims of abuse or neglect. A good many of these cases are at the hands of facility employees. However, at times, abuse can come from their fellow residents, sometimes ending in tragedy. Virginia authorities announced last Thursday that no charges would be filed...

Three workers at an extended-care nursing facility are facing charges after a patient died of what may have been neglect. Three workers from a Uniondale nursing home were arrested Wednesday following allegations of neglect that led to the death of a patient. According to the state attorney gen...

The holidays are often times when families check in with their older family members. Talking to your elderly relatives can be the best way to discover if they have fallen victim to or have been targeted by a financial scam. A recent survey by Fidelity Investments revealed that although 60% of sen...

Hospitals, nursing homes, and day cares are often places where “bugs” get passed around. However, some bugs are so-called “superbugs” and hospitals and nursing homes can get around reporting them. The outbreak began in January of 2014. This is when a resident of Casa Maria nursing home in Roswell...

New admissions to a Tennessee nursing home named Brookhaven Manor have been suspended, and for good cause. The reasons for suspending new admissions are detailed in a 77-page report. The documents, which are available to the public highlight the fact that the nursing home did not do enough to pre...

When it comes to elder abuse, many would immediately think of the kind of abuse and neglect that is often seen in nursing homes. While that does happen, most often, elder abuse is perpetrated by a family member, a friend, a trusted person in the senior’s life. Currently, the federal government ca...

If a nursing home has a poor rating, many people might ask why family members would send their loved ones to that facility. Sometimes, these facilities come recommended by the hospital and families are not made aware of the rating until it’s too late. 88-year-old Elizabeth Fee’s belly was so dist...