A nursing facility has received low ratings because their administrator failed to acknowledge and report several incidents. These incidents include one resident initiating “unsolicited sexual contact with eight other residents”, a nurse giving a resident the wrong medication, and the lack of security in the building. The citations came with $23,563 in fines, making it the third straight year of fines assigned to the nursing home.  The administrator went to a City Council meeting where he fa…

A woman who worked at one nursing home for 15 years was recently arrested for stealing morphine from that nursing home. This year the administrators at the facility noticed that there were missing drugs from the nursing home. The administrators called the police and the police later found the missing drugs in the former nurse’s home with labels from the nursing home still on them.

Many nursing homes are being caught and punished for allowing illegal “kickbacks” to become a part of their system and a way to gain more money. An example of one of these illegal kickbacks is when the facility will pay doctors to send patients unnecessarily to their facility. Doing this increases the amount of patients that will come to their facility, which increases the amount of people they are billing, bringing in more money for the facility.

A man plans to sue a nursing home because they failed to provide a safe environment and supervision for his elderly and mentally disabled father. When his father was being admitted into the nursing home facility, he was categorized as at risk for developing bed sores and infections. During his stay there were no records of his skin condition being checked.

One nursing home facility has been fined $100,000 for the highest class of violation that can be received from a state survey. The citation was given to the facility based on the failure to properly care for a patient that led to his death. The patient had a history of head trauma and difficulties with chewing and swallowing.

Three nursing homes received multiple citations for survey violations such as unsanitary conditions, problems with staff, and failure to prevent injuries of patients. After viewing the results of their surveys, two of the three nursing homes arose to the challenge of correcting the issues. Many new rules and changes were set in place to improve the facility’s patient care.