A Kansas nurse accused of tampering with nursing home medications pleaded guilty to one count of adulteration of a drug and one count of consumer product tampering in a Topeka federal court at the end of November. Melanie Morrison admitted to diluting morphine solutions at the nursing home in Salina…
A nursing director at a Maryland nursing home faces charges of forging signatures on prescription slips and attempting to obtain oxycodone at an area pharmacy. On August 24, 2011, Maryland State Police arrested Pamela Brittingham Quillen, nursing director of Manokin Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Princess Anne, and charged…
Recently, our Baltimore nursing home abuse blog discussed the financial abuse of elders–a hugely under reported problem affecting around 3.5 million seniors around the country every year. In recent nursing home abuse lawsuit news, a 68-year-old retired preschool teacher has sued a Seal Beach nursing home for elder abuse, alleging…
As our Baltimore, Maryland accident lawyer blog recently reported, the family of an elderly nursing home resident whose wrongful death lead to a nursing home abuse and negligence lawsuit, was awarded $91.5 million earlier this month, after a Charleston, West Virginia jury found Heartland of Charleston nursing home and its…
A fourth nursing home abuse and negligence lawsuit has been filed this week against the owners of a Kentucky nursing home complex, after a resident allegedly suffered from inadequate care when her healthcare rights and safety were reportedly threatened. According to a news development from the Richmond Register that our…
In a recent Baltimore nursing home lawyer blog, our attorneys discussed a nursing home abuse incident involving a former nursing aide, where the worker reportedly removed the Fentanyl pain medication patch from an elderly resident in order to take the pain medication for her own personal recreational drug use. According…
In an effort to help seniors and families better evaluate and choose the right nursing home, the federal government has recently improved the Nursing Home Compare website, according to a recent article in Forbes. As our Maryland nursing home injury blog has previously discussed, the Nursing Home Compare website is…
In recent nursing home abuse news that our Baltimore, Maryland attorneys have been following, two former nursing aides in a Northern California nursing home were sentenced to a twenty day county jail sentence for allegedly organizing a prank for other workers by rubbing eight dementia nursing home patients with ointment…
The Mid-Hudson News Network has recently reported that a series of nursing home abuse investigations by the New York State Attorney General and the State Office Medicaid Inspector General has led to the discharges and surrendering of allegedly abusive and negligent registered nurses in Liberty and Rhinebeck, New York. In…
In a recent Anne Arundel County nursing home blog, our attorneys reported on the problem of pressure ulcers in nursing homes, and the importance of detecting and treating bedsores before they develop into serious infections that could be life threatening. Bedsores, or decubitus ulcers, affect nearly one million people in…