This is an incredible story. A nursing home employee was jailed for allegedly using a cigarette lighter to set fire to an elderly patient’s bed over the weekend. Tina Louise Spencer was booked into the county jail on charges of first-degree arson and attempted murder. Spencer is accused of setting fire to the bed of
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Woman fell nine times in 7 months, and didn’t get 22 doses of necessary medications but the State only fined the home $1500. A resident fell nine times in seven months before anyone at her nursing home acted to prevent further falls. Her chart also describes six weeks last fall when she was behaving wildly — yelling,
Rat dies in mouth of California nursing home patient Staffing was so inadequate at a California senior center that a rat crawled into an Alzheimer’s patient’s mouth and died there before staff noticed, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit alleges that Paragon Gardens Assisted Living and Memory Care Community in Mission Viejo overbooked their facility to receive