Not guilty pleas in nursing home deaths
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The owners of a nursing home where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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A Montgomery County hospital threatened with state fines and loss of Medicare funding after a patient's death from malnutrition is back in compliance with state and federal regulators.
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The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients has dropped by nearly a quarter in two years and fewer residents report suffering from pain, according to a report released yesterday by the Bush administration.
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MONDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Nursing home residents treated intermittently with drugs for common ailments such as depression, arthritis or sinus problems over a three-month period were almost 90 percent more likely to die at the end of that period than were patients who didn't take such drugs, new research shows.
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The husband and wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty in the deaths of 35 patients who perished in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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KINGSTON, NY -- State health officials are probing the deaths of four Ulster County residents who died in recent months of a rare brain disease.
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The owners of a New Orleans nursing home deny manslaughter over the deaths of 35 patients in Hurricane Katrina.
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This year&#39;s flu season has claimed its first casualties in the New York City area. Four senior citizens died and 13 others were hospitalized after a recent outbreak in a Queens nursing home.
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The case against a doctor and two nurses accused of murdering four elderly patients after Hurricane Katrina will go forward despite a coroner's ruling that it is unclear how they died, the New Orleans District Attorney's office said on Thursday.
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The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients has dropped by nearly a quarter in two years and fewer residents report suffering from pain, according to a report released Wednesday by the Bush administration.
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The owners of a New Orleans-area  nursing home were indicted on charges of negligent homicide  late on Wednesday in the drowning deaths of 35 residents during  Hurricane Katrina.
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. - A 53-year-old woman who claimed she received spiritual messages from geese before allegedly stabbing her toddler granddaughter to death was found not guilty by reason of insanity Friday.
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The Sept. 26 slaying of Thomas Mullen and the arrest of his roommate John Tamkun, a retired cabinetmaker who suffers from dementia, have cast a spotlight on a growing problem at nursing homes across the country: violence among residents.
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(Albany, NY-AP, October 18, 2004) - State health officials said Monday an investigation found nothing unusual about the number of people who died of a rare, brain-wasting disorder in the Hudson Valley in the past year.
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In Sept. 21 NEW YORK story headlined &quot;Survey chides quality of 1 in 10 nursing homes&quot; please read in first paragraph ... inadequate quality in a survey of state inspection reports ... instead of ... consistently inadequate quality since the year 2000 .
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Fewer US nursing home residents suffer from chronic pain and fewer physical restraints are being used, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.
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By Edith Brady-Lunny and Sharon K. Wolfe, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 16--DANVERS -- A 72-year old Washington woman was identified Friday as the victim in a drowning Thursday at Spin Lake in rural Danvers.   Velma M.