Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Alarming New Study About Patient Harm in Nursing Homes

Late last month, the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a new report about the safety of patients in...

First-of-its-kind Case Settled against Kentucky Nursing Home

Last month, Villaspring Health Care and Rehabilitation in Erlanger, Villaspring’s parent company, Carespring Health Care Management, and its owner reportedly reached an agreement with the...

How Important Are Radiologists in Identifying Elder Abuse?

A study that was recently presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) suggests that radiologists may have an important...

Government Releases New Information on Bed Rail Accidents

Information gathered by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) indicates that 155 people died from bed rail injuries from January 2003 – September 2012....

Communication With Alzheimer Patients’ Families Questioned

A new study published on November 13 in the online Journal of Applied Communication Research found that families of Alzheimer’s patients may not always be...

Study Looks at Nursing Home Norovirus Outbreak Complications

Researchers at the University Of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine recently looked at two years’ worth of data to determine what the effect of a...