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    Serious Nursing Home Abuse Often Not Reported To Police, Federal Investigators Find

    Despite legal requirements, more than one-quarter of cases of severe abuse that were uncovered by government investigators were not reported to the police. The majority involved sexual assault.
    by Ina Jaffe Aug 28, 2017 3 minutes
    Despite legal requirements, more than one-quarter of the 134 cases of serious abuse that were uncovered by government investigators were not reported to the police.

    More than one-quarter of serious cases of nursing home abuse are not reported to the police, according to an alert released Monday morning by the Office of Inspector General in the Department of Health and Human Services.

    The cases went unreported despite the fact that state and federal law require that serious cases of abuse in nursing homes be turned over to the police.

    Government investigators are conducting an ongoing review into nursing home

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