The Rhode Island Veterans Nursing Home in Bristol, Rhode Island is being investigated by the Rhode Island House Committee on Veterans Affairs. The Veterans Nursing Home was found by a House panel to have bitterness and anger between management and staff, poor communication with patients' families as well as building problems.

The Veterans Nursing Home is alleged to have ordered the performance of three surgeries for a World War II Veteran without his consent or the consent of his legal guardian. The surgeries were inconclusive. The nursing home changed the Veteran's legal status without notifying his family even though the Veteran was incompetent to made medical or financial decisions. It is also alleged that a nursing home doctor then pressured the legal guardian to approve a fourth surgery.

A staff member of the nursing home threatened to call the State Police to remove the Veteran's grandaughter from the nursing home because she was taking photographs of unexplained bruises on her grandafther's arm.

The family was pushing to have the Veteran moved to another nursing home when he passed away.