Category: Nursing Home Abuse

Across the United States, there is a growing need for quality long-term care. Over the course of the next decade, it is estimated that Pennsylvanians over the age of 60 will account for nearly 30% of the state’s population. Unfortunately, the nursi ...

When you are looking for a nursing home to take care of your elderly loved one, there are a number of things you have to consider. Of course you want to make sure that the facility is nice, but there is much more to it than that. You want to ensure t ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court invalidated a nursing home’s contract requiring residents to submit all claims to binding arbitration under the National Arbitration Forum’s Code of Procedure. After the mother was taken from the hospital to the nu ...

The Kentucky Attorney General’s office is reviewing the death of a Carlisle Nursing Home resident who was left alone for 15 to 20 minutes after a nurse found her choking on food. The nursing home resident, who was just admitted 10 days prior to the ...

On June 7, 2011, emergency responders were called to the Sunrise Care Center in Milwaukee to tend to a nursing home resident who was unresponsive. The emergency crew was not called to assist with a resident that was in a diabetic coma or having a hea ...

We all know that we must keep toddlers safe from drowning in buckets of water or areas where there may be small standing water. At times, we sadly hear about a toddler falling into a small body of water or bucket of water and drowning, but an elder? ...