A veteran with a history of falls fell at a nursing home and suffered a hip fracture. Injuries documented from the fall only included a right shoulder and hand fracture. However, later when the patient voiced pain in his hip, x-rays were given with only Tylenol administered for the pain.
The family of a deceased nursing home patient is seeking justice and future prevention measures for nursing home patient care. A patient in a nursing home for 15 months was allowed to develop a bedsore that became infected and progressed to a Stage IV level. The bedsore was the size of a fist by the time she was sent to the hospital.
A nursing home employee has been charged with abuse of a patient after an incident was caught on surveillance camera. The nursing home employee was trying to subdue the patient who was showing signs of being difficult to manage. The nursing home employee then struck the patient in the head with a cell phone.The patient suffered a deep cut to her forehead.
A nursing home with a four-star rating has received numerous lawsuits over the years. The Medicare & Medicaid 5-star rating system has missed the individual problems that have left patients in dangerous situations due to neglect and/or abuse. One of the patients that experienced neglect was a patient smoking in his room with an oxygen tank.
A nursing home patient has died after falling into a creek. The patient was in a wheelchair who fell out of the chair and into the creek. He was in cardiac arrest when found and died just 20 minutes later.The patient was checked out of the facility per the corporate owners of the nursing home.
A nursing home chain has been fined more than $570,000 in a series of citations of nursing home abuse. The latest accusation of more abuse came from video surveillance from a hidden camera in a patient’s room. The nursing home staff were recorded ignoring and ridiculing a patient that had fallen.
