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According to an autopsy report by the Lucas County Coroner, 72‑year-old Lucy Garcia died on July 2, 2024 after months of neglect. She was a resident for a number of years at the Arbors at Oregon Nursing Home. The Arbors at Oregon Nursing Home is lo… Read More

By Alexis Means and Emily Van de Riet TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) – A family is demanding answers after their mother’s death was ruled a homicide from months of medical neglect at an Ohio nursing home. According to an autopsy report from the Lu… Read More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also known as CMS, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, has a Center for Clinical Status and Quality/Quality Safety and Oversight Group. This group monitors nursing homes. They hav… Read More

I recently read an article about a disagreement between two residents at a local nursing home in Scioto County. During the argument, a female resident pushed her walker into a male resident. She threw a cup of ice in his face. He pushed her walker ba… Read More

A New York Supreme Court judge threw out all arguments from lawyers for an embattled group of nursing homes that sought to have charges dismissed in a case accusing the owners and operators of $83 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Judge Melissa… Read More

One of the most common issues that we see in the cases that we handle here at The Dickson Firm are cases where a nursing home resident has developed skin breakdown, or bedsores or pressure sores or decubitus ulcers. This often happens when a person,… Read More

A disagreement between two residents at a local nursing home got out of hand around 7 pm. During an argument, the woman pushed her walker into the man and threw a cup of ice in his face. The man retaliated by pushing the walker back at the woman. Wit… Read More

We often get phone calls from potential clients about poor care in certain facilities. Sometimes the caller thinks the facility is a nursing home when in fact it is an assisted living facilities. Oftentimes the owners of these facilities give their f… Read More