CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal authorities temporarily stripped Heartland of Charleston's Medicare and Medicaid funding in September after inspectors cited the home for several serious violations -- one of which left an elderly dementia patient...
SYDNEY -- A nurse who said he rescued patients from a fire at a nursing home was charged with murder Saturday in the blaze that killed five of them and critically injured 13 others.
HINDS COUNTY, MS (WLBT) - A former nursing home employee will spend a year in jail after being convicted of embezzling from the facility she worked for.
SYDNEY -- An 82-year-old man has died from injuries suffered when a Sydney nursing home erupted in flames, raising the death toll from the fire to seven.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Kanawha County jury on Friday awarded an elderly woman's family $91.5 million in damages from a Charleston nursing home, after finding that nursing home workers indirectly caused the woman's death.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Workers in an understaffed Charleston nursing home failed to properly care for an 87-year-old woman who had stayed there for about three weeks before dying of dehydration, lawyers for the woman's son said during the first...
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that arbitration agreements signed by nursing home residents prior to any act of alleged negligence may not be used to resolve wrongful-death and personal injury claims in three consolidated suits.
A recent report released by the federal Government Accountability Office showed 25 of the 39 responding states reported funding has decreased or remained the same over the last five years. It didn't detail if West Virginia is one of those...
James McHugh of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, claimed arbitration placed unreasonable burdens on residents while providing incalculable benefits to defendants.
CHARLESTON -- A man is suing 12 companies on behalf of a woman he claims suffered physical and emotional trauma while staying in a nursing home. Kenneth Holdren is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. He is being represented by James B....
A Putnam County man is suing the Teays Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Genesis Healthcare Corporation after he claims they are at fault for his mother's death.