According to police, a nursing home employee was arrested on Thursday for allegedly buying Oxycodone that he planned to distribute to inmates at the county jail. The man was taken into custody outside the nursing home and charged with sale and possession of a controlled substance. The man worked in the nursing home’s laundry room and had regular contact with inmates from the nearby prison who are allowed to work in the nursing home.

A stroke-compromised, immobile nursing home patient was being transferred using a mechanical lift when staff permitted the patient to fall to the floor. Only one aide was present during the attempted transfer despite the fact that two staff members were required to be present at all times during mechanical lift transfers. In addition, discovery revealed that the nursing home was aware, years before the fall, that the lift was defective.

State officials have placed a nursing home administrator on two-years of probation, after two incidents involving resident health and safety. Regulators say one resident left the facility on two separate occasions. On one occasion, the patient wandered from the facility in November and had to be treated for hypothermia and frostbite after spending hours in the cold.

A nursing home caretaker has been charged with injury to an elderly person, a felony. According to police he was seen on surveillance video pinching a woman in the face several times. The victim’s daughter told police that she placed a recording device in her room after noticing several unexplained injuries while the woman stayed at the facility.

An 83-year-old nursing home patient was permitted to fall during a transfer from chair to bed. On admission to the nursing home, the patient was noted to have dementia, required total assistance for all ADLs, and required a mechanical Hoyer lift for transfers. Prior to the fall, the patient was known to be unable to attempt balance tests without physical help.

An elderly female nursing home patient who was ambulatory, but required assistance with bathing and toileting, was allowed by the supervising nursing home aide to fall when exiting the shower. The aide did not provide the patient with proper supervision or safety measures for exiting the shower. As a result of the fall, the patient sustained a comminuted fracture of the right wrist and an intertrochanteric fracture of the right hip.