North Carolina Nursing Home aides accused of assault.(Fraud and Abuse Watch)(Brief article) Long-Term Care Interface (8/1/2006)
Marva Taylor and Toni Hester--former nursing home aides at the North Carolina State Veterans Nursing Home (Salisbury, NC)--were accused...get out of bed or talk. According to the nursing home ...

Data on Nursing Detailed by Researchers at Medical University of South Carolina.(Report) Health & Medicine Week (5/30/2011)
...thermometers for home use by patients...University of South Carolina (see also Nursing). The researchers...in the Journal of Nursing Measurement (Agreement...University of South Carolina--Charleston...States, Region:North ...

North Carolina's nursing home killer gets life in prison.(Long-Term Living BLOG) Long-Term Living (10/1/2011)
Last month, Robert Stewart was convicted on eight counts of second-degree murder for shooting and killing seven elderly residents and one aide, avoiding the death penalty by virtue of the now-dubbed "Ambien defense." www. Itlmagazine.com/KillerGetsLife For all Long-Term Living blog entries, visit

New Nursing Research Research Reported from University of North Carolina.(Report) Health & Medicine Week (12/12/2011)
"The hospital-to-home transition represents a vulnerable...scientists in Chapel Hill, North Carolina report (see also Nursing Research). "As an exploratory...colleagues, University of North Carolina. The researchers concluded...

Pohlad begins `serious talks' with Carolina businessman; The Twins owner discussed selling his team to nursing home magnate Don Beaver. The two men will meet again this morning.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (9/18/1997)
...twice Wednesday with a North Carolina businessman who wants to...Beaver, a multimillionaire nursing home magnate and current owner...as founder of a chain of North Carolina-based Brian Center Nursing ...

North Carolina Counties Must Provide Nursing-Home Records. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (8/21/2001)
...she said. In North Carolina, legislators and the...to consumers. Though North Carolina's 100 counties are...Buncombe adult-care home during the past two years...living facilities in North Carolina, contact ...

North Carolina Health Department to Investigate Raleigh Nursing Home. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (12/30/2002)
...planned to take her mother home next week from Britthaven of...therapy. Since moving to the nursing home Dec. 10 after hip replacement...licenses and investigates skilled nursing facilities. Staff at Britthaven...emergency personnel who went to the ...

Helping residents stay dry. (Feature Article).(interview of Mary H. Palmer, PhD, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing; discusses what long-term care facilities can do to better manage incontinence)(Interview) Nursing Homes (6/1/2003)
...professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, vital keys to helping...as a method to care for nursing home residents who suffer from...evaluation of incontinence in nursing ...

Nursing home outbreaks of invasive group A streptococcal infections - Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, and Texas. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (8/31/1990)
...infections in one nursing home each in...Kansas, North Carolina, and Texas...infection in nursing home staff was rare...four nursing homes, culture surveys...reported ...