Westminster Towers cited for not reporting patient abuse By Jonathan McFadden ROCK HILL — The state Department of Health and Environmental Control this month cited Westminster Towers Continuing Care Retirement Community for not reporting a patient abuse allegation a year ago. The retirement and nursing home center on India Hook Road didn’t comply with state regulations […]

States Updating Assisted Living Regulations as Industry Evolves Because assisted living is regulated on the state level, there are multiple efforts under way at any given time to update and refresh assisted living rules and regulations. Even when legislators are not in session, they are still making progress on aligning regulations with the changing needs […]

Starved to Death More female nursing home patients are found anorexic than teenage girls. Shocking. This can lead to skin breakdown, pressure sores, infection, dehydration, malnutrition, suffering and death.

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Overmedication along with inadequate staffing is a sometimes deadly combination. This article discusses the same. article

Last year, I was involved in a claim in which a Charleston restaurant allowed an intoxicated employee to leave the premises. He later got into his vehicle and collided with a young man on the Arthur Ravenel Bridge, killing the man. It was sad. A similar situation is discussed in the article below. South Carolina […]