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Federal regulators say New York needs to do more to ensure nursing homes are protecting residents after an audit revealed numerous deficiencies in areas related to the safety of residents and emergency preparedness.   The audit was conducted early last year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, as part of a larger effort to see if states are...

For Curtis Simmons, it was to have been a short rehab stay at the Arizona State Veteran Home in 2015 after routine back surgery. But his daughter Lauren found him groggy, and said the staff seemed uncertain about what medications they’d given him. Soon after, on Christmas Eve, the 65-year-old Vietnam veteran was dead — the direct result of a high dose of morphine, according to...

Over the past five years, the Rastelle Manor assisted-living facility on Ridgewood Avenue has racked up $36,000 in fines from the state and has been cited for multiple deficiencies and complaints. In July, it all caught up with the facility’s owners. Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, which is responsible for the licensing and regulation of Florida’s Health...

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a robbery duo who allegedly robbed at north St. Louis nursing home at gunpoint.  Just past 2 p.m. Friday, detectives said two men, dressed in Stericycle employee uniforms, entered the administrative office at Northview Village  Nursing and Rehab Center on N. Kingshighway. The suspects pointed a gun at an employee and...

A man is behind bars after authorities say he raped a disabled woman in a nursing home where he worked. A hidden camera caught a nursing assistant sexually assaulting a woman multiple times in Seattle.  Nshimiyiana Hamzat is charged with second degree rape.  According to court documents, 29-year-old Nshimiyiana Hamzat, nursing assistant at Foss Home and Village Nursing Home in...