Elderly woman suffers in nursing home

Nursing Home Abuse

NEW ORLEANS, LA —Nursing home neglect and abuse is in the news again, with the preventable death of an elderly man in Annandale, Minnesota. In an unimaginable instance of neglect and incompetence, the nursing home had “no system, policies, or procedures in place” to ensure that patients received their medication as prescribed. Louisiana routinely fares much worse than Minnesota in …