A nursing home incident may lead to a medical malpractice case. A patient was left alone with a nursing assistant and the patient sustained injuries. In addition, there was a bloody pillowcase and torn clothing. The nursing assistant has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the incident.

A nursing home is unable to admit patients presently due to a recent concern of abuse and other issues.  The nursing home has had more than 40 citations in the past three years for not following the standard of care. Nursing home representatives were not available to answer questions.Issues arising from the complaints and survey inspections include abuse policy and protocol, infection control and the treatment of bed sores.

A nursing home patient has died and three nursing home workers have been arrested.  The patient had a ventilator alarm go off for more than 9 minutes. The ventilator upon which the patient relied disconnected cutting off the ability to breath. The nursing home workers were required by law to respond although they did not.

A nursing home chain has been under fire recently after a woman was sent to ICU based on her husband’s action upon seeing her deteriorate in just a matter of 2 days. “We visited her on Monday, to find her sitting in a wheelchair in a seemingly catatonic state, trembling uncontrollably, mumbling jibberish with her eyes rolling back in her head,” her husband recalled. “My two children and I had last visited her Saturday, two days prior, and left her in good spirits.

A nursing home cited for “actual harm in the areas of quality of care and nursing services,” may lose its Medicare certification soon if it does not reverse the lack of quality care based on a state department of health survey. The nursing home allowed some individuals to be harmed while leaving others in “immediate jeopardy”. The facility was fined $9,591 for the immediate jeopardy citation and $2,353 daily for other citations after that. For more, read the story.

New nursing home regulations set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are putting more power into the hands of patients and their family members. New regulations soon to be enforced allow patients “to be much more engaged in the design of their care plan and the design of their discharge plans,” said the senior vice-president of the American Healthcare Association. The patients and their families would also be able to avoid being discharged while disputing reasons for dis…