Two nursing homes are facing fines from the state for instances of staff abuse towards residents. Both facilities reported to the Department of Health that they terminated employees involved in alleged abuse. One of the facilities received a $755 fine after a nurse’s aide allegedly treated a resident in a rough manner that may have caused the patient to hit his or her head on a bedrail, a state report says.  The home also was cited for three other incidents involving injuries to residents.

A nursing home has been cited and fined $100,000 by the Department of Public Health for negligent care that led to the death of a resident. The fine was the most severe penalty allowed under state law. The penalty was issued after a nurse at the facility inserted a breathing tube into the trachea of an 81-year-old woman with the cap still on the tube.

According to police, a man living in an assisted living facility has been accused of attacking three of his fellow residents with a metal bar or pipe.The County Sheriff’s Department says the 28-year-old resident was in custody Monday on three counts of burglary of a habitation. Bond has been set at $150,000. Why he was a resident at the facility has not yet been released.

Facility staff and families of residents reported 25 cases of care concerns regarding a nursing home to the Federal Government. As a result, the facility was sanctioned after federal investigators found medication, pain and nutritional needs were not managed safely, and the comfort of and dignity of terminally ill residents was not maintained. The facility will now be monitored daily until the issues are corrected.

Federal investigators raided two pharmacies on a suspicion that they were collecting, sorting, repackaging and reselling drugs from nursing homes. The two pharmacies are both owned by Scrips LTC. Court documents filed in U.S.

The Department of Health in one state has substantiated a case of nursing home neglect in connection with a resident’s pelvic fracture. A male resident with a history of dementia, osteoarthritis, and a falls fractured his pelvis after being left unattended on the toilet with an alarmed motion monitor. The resident was later found sitting on the bathroom floor and was assessed by a nurse.