July 24, 2024
A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of …
May 1, 2023
Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at a veterans’ home. Nearly 80 veterans died at the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke after contracting the coronavirus in one of …
December 4, 2017
Tennessee state inspectors found widespread neglect resulting in patients’ deaths at a nursing home that has been fined $50,000, the most of any such penalty ever imposed. The Commercial Appeal cites the inspection in a Wednesday report. In addition to …
September 13, 2016
A bankrupt Brentwood, Tenn., company is facing a federal lawsuit over conditions at six Tennessee nursing homes. WPLN-FM reports prosecutors accuse Vanguard Healthcare LLC of earning big profits while providing “grossly substandard care.” They also accuse the company of fraudulently …