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Nursing Home Staffing Levels Affect Sepsis Rate Experienced In Patients
Nursing homes with lower staffing levels in one state experience a higher rate of sepsis in their patients. Patients suffer from sepsis caused by pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and bedsores. These illnesses often come from patients being bed rdden.
Nursing Home Employee Charged With Sexual Assault
A nursing home employee husband charged with sexually assaulting a coworker. The coworker said that the sexual assault affected her work. She was continually groped and had advances made by the coworker. The harassed coworker said that she sometimes screamed out while treating patients due to his grabbing her from behind.
Nursing Home Patient's Family Wrongfully Informed Of Patient Death
Family members of a nursing home patient were wrongly informed of her death. The nursing home has two patients with the same name and failed to verify the correct family and contact information for the patient. The family rushed to the nursing home facility from two hours away.“I called again at 5:30,” the patient's daughter said.
Nursing Home Patient Removed From Facility Die To Neglect
A nursing home facility has been accused of neglect. The loved one of a patient has removed her mother from the home based on concerns that her mother suffering from dementia was being neglected. “There was pee that was dried up,” the patient's daughter claims. “Like she had been laying in it.
VA Nursing Home Ranks Low For Quality Care
A VA nursing home has been cited and identified as one of the lowest rated nursing homes in the country. Amid bed sores, overmedication, and staffing issues, patients are not receiving quality care. The care issues have little accountability per incidents cited by whistleblowers. One whistleblower went to a supervisor about a coworker who was mistreating a patient and neglecting to maintain the patient's hygiene.
Nursing Home Falls To Insure Employees After Withholding To Pay Premiums
A nursing home chain has been accused of moving funds around to pay delinquent bills among its nursing homes. One nursing home has taken money out of employee paychecks to pay insurance premiums only to find the employees had no actual insurance. The main concern is patient care with fficient finds to “In sum, defendants’ financial situation is something more than doubtful — it is dire,” an attorney told the court.