The largest nursing home in St. Louis closed so abruptly last week, according to the union representing workers there, that 170 people living there were moved to new homes without notifying relatives and staff did not receive their last paycheck. The Missouri Health and Senior Services Department said in a statement to The Associated Press…
A former Pennsylvania nurse who had been accused of killing two patients with doses of insulin faces more murder charges and has confessed to trying to kill 19 additional people at several locations, the authorities said Thursday. In May, Heather Pressdee, 41, admitted to the authorities that she had intended to kill three patients in…
American hospitals are once again filling up with coronavirus patients — but not with nurses to care for them. The nation’s chronic shortage of registered nurses is as bad in some parts of the country as it has ever been, experts say, and it is showing signs of getting worse. Hospitalizations have risen steadily in…