As efforts continue to make sure all residents in long-term care facilities get vaccinated for COVID-19, local nursing home staff are pleased with the progress being made.
State investigators say a nurse mistakenly gave a short-term resident at a New Hope, Minnesota, nursing home a dose of oxycodone that was 20 times stronger than he should have received, killing him.
Police in central Minnesota recently turned to the public for help in tracking down a former nursing home employee charged with sexually assaulting an elderly resident.
State regulators have cited a New Hope nursing home and five employees for brutal treatment of two patients last year, based mostly on hidden-camera footage.
A Red Wing nursing home assistant has admitted to stealing a resident's wedding ring and pawning it. Twenty-four-year-old Erin Russell tells reporters she hopes prosecutors will reduce the felony theft charge against her to a misdemeanor.
A male nursing assistant at a Minneapolis nursing home has pleaded guilty to raping an 83-year-old woman suffering from severe dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Seventy-seven-year-old George Sumo Kpingbah of Brooklyn Center entered his plea Monday in Hennepin County court.
New Hope authorities are considering criminal charges against two former nursing home employees after family members set up hidden "granny cams" to record physical abuse.