Staff at a Concord nursing home gave a 55-year-old paraplegic patient a cup of bleach-based wound-cleaning solution to wash down his morning pills, the man claimed in a lawsuit against the facility.

A 95-year-old woman with dementia was arrested Tuesday two days after she allegedly beat a fellow Brooklyn nursing home resident to death with a metal wheelchair piece. Galina Smirnova was cuffed ...

Two employees of an Ocean County nursing home were indicted this month on charges related to an 87-year-old patient being pepper-sprayed and left without care for nearly an hour, state officials said ...

WHEN I walk our hospitals, I hear the same concern from chief nursing officers across New Hampshire: We need more qualified nurses to meet patient demand. It’s a crisis that touches every corner of ...

Lawsuit Alleges Nevada Veterans Nursing Home Endangered Patients, Retaliated Against Staff A group of former employees is suing the Nevada Department of Veterans Services (NDVS), alleging that the ...

The gray virtual reality headset transforms the typical classroom into a busy virtual hospital. Gamers are not the only people benefitting from virtual reality. VR is being used by nursing programs ...

The new service, covered up to 70 hours in some cases, aims to improve the lives of caregivers and patients. Erika Kengni is a former Times intern. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health has doled out tens of thousands of dollars in fines to dozens of nursing homes throughout the Chicago area, including a handful where “severe” violations led ...

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply. Dr. Asif Merchant is a physician and medical ...

NAZARETH, Pa. - Authorities say a former nurse at Gracedale Nursing Home in Northampton County assaulted a patient, claiming that there were demons inside of the victim. Octavia Robinson, 43, of ...

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