One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress.

The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on ...

The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on ...

Facilities across the country, whether they are ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designated hospitals, designation hopefuls, or just seeking to improve their quality of care, struggle daily with ...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ At least 14 residents of Oklahoma nursing homes suffocated or strangled to death on restraints between 1990 and 1999, according to a published report. An analysis of death ...

The use of physical restraints on nursing home residentshas fallen 40% in recent years, according to a report from the Agency forHealthcare Research and Quality. Overall, about 5.9% of 1.5 million ...

According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA), as many as 5 million older Americans are abused each year, and many of them live in nursing homes. Nursing homes use […] ...

A new report has raised concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced tube feeding in Edinburgh's inpatient mental ...

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed ...