Nursing Homes

Omnicare – a business that provides pharmaceutical services to long-term care institutions – will close its Burbank facility next month. Company spokesman Ed Loyd said Omnicare's Burbank facility, located at 7565 San Fernando Road, will shut...

Unlike many Americans, Ruby Harley didn’t lose work during the recession. In fact, the Inwood, W.Va., woman gained work — holding two jobs at the same time before the recession, three jobs simultaneously during the recession and two jobs now....

Northampton County Council on Thursday voted to file a civil lawsuit against County Executive John Stoffa to prevent him from entering into a contract for non-emergency transport at Gracedale nursing home. Council members said Stoffa subverted their...

A Carbon County nursing home resident is charged in the death of an 86-year-old woman after he allegedly shoved her to the floor, causing fatal injuries. Carl Louis Smith, 53, was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter, simple assault and...

One week after Hope Babel's body was found in the burned-out ruins of her Shoemakersville apartment, Ryan J. Stufflet told an acquaintance, "If something happens with this, I'm going to kill myself," police said Tuesday. Nearly 11 years later, state...

We had planned to keep our beloved 1997 station wagon. Then something happened. On the way home from picking up a small, new SUV, its air conditioning stopped. Its temperature soared and the needle on its temperature gauge flew past "H." The towing...

Editor: As summer approaches, many high school students are getting ready to graduate and head off to colleges across the nation. As a soon to graduate college student, who attended our own Fallston High School, I would like to suggest a major that is...

A more than 10-year-old investigation into the homicide of a 47-year-old Berks County woman whose body was found in her Shoemakersville apartment after a fire has been solved, according to state police in Reading. Ryan Stufflet, 28, of Hamburg, was...

Old sayings are clichés, but they're oft repeated for the simple reason that they're usually true. Snooty writers such as columnists avoid that shorthand method of communicating an idea — obviously it's beneath our keen mental capacity — but...

The Antrim Township Board of Supervisors made it clear it is not in favor of a variance that would allow a personal-care facility to be located in an agricultural residential zone. At Tuesday’s meeting, Sylvia House, township zoning officer,...

Authorities on Wednesday asked mourners not to place memorial items on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge where five women died after flames consumed their limousine. Leaving flowers or items on the bridge where the fiery tragedy occurred could create a...

Many Floridians are familiar with the Agency for Health Care Administration as the entity that runs the Florida Medicaid program. That is true, but we also have oversight of more than 45,000 health care facilities and providers, from acute care centers...