Minnesota Nursing Home Resident, 80, Dies After Suffering 'Severe Burns' in Motorized Scooter Fire: 'The Victim was Fully Engulfed'
"Preliminary findings suggest smoking likely caused this accidental fire," Ely Police Department said, identifying the victim as Marjorie Jane Hible
80-year-old on motorized scooter catches fire and dies at nursing home, MN cops say
Flames fatally engulfed an 80-year-old woman on a motorized scooter at a Minnesota nursing home, according to police. First responders received a 911 call around 4:40 p.m., Jan. 6, about a fire at the Boundary Waters Care Center in Ely, the Ely Police Department said in a news release.
Woman, 80, dies after catching fire on motorized scooter in Ely
An 80-year-old woman died after catching fire while on a motorized scooter outside an Ely nursing home Monday, according to authorities. The Ely Police Department said the incident happened just before 4:40 p.
Woman, 80, dies after motorized scooter she’s riding goes up in flames
An 80-year-old woman in northern Minnesota was “fully engulfed” in flames when the motorized scooter she was riding outside her care facility caught fire, triggering an investigation into her
80-year old in Ely, Minnesota dies after being "fully engulfed in flames" on motorized scooter
Police in the northern Minnesota town of Ely are investigating after an 80-year-old woman died after being “fully engulfed” by flames while on a motorized scooter.
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Elderly woman died after being found unresponsive outside local nursing home
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Nursing home residents dodging embers, smoke amid LA County wildfire evacuations
Nursing homes in Los Angeles County abruptly evacuated residents Tuesday night as wildfire flames and hurricane-like winds ...
Lawsuit alleges West Des Moines nursing home let resident wander away, suffer fatal injury
A West Des Moines nursing home is facing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who wandered away from the ...
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Can AI solve some of the biggest problems in post-acute care?
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Make nursing home personal needs allowances part of CMS equity efforts: researchers
States should increase the personal needs allowances provided to nursing home residents whose stays are covered by Medicaid.
20 taken to hospital after Pa. nursing home fire: reports
A three-alarm fire at a nursing home in Northumberland County Friday morning ended with 20 people being sent to a hospital, ...
Lawmakers pass nursing home retaliation bill as lame-duck session wraps up in Springfield
Lawmakers also passed an energy bill and legislation transferring land to the state's first federally recognized tribal ...
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BREAKING: CMS program to offer RNs up to $50K each to work in nursing homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will offer nursing students up to $40,000 in tuition reimbursement or $10,000 outright to work for a nursing home or state survey agency, the agency said ...