A lawsuit has been brought against a nursing home by the family of a former patient. The patient was admitted as a known high fall risk. The patient fell numerous times while under the care of the nursing home and sustained injuries to his head and elbow. The patient suffered a hematoma and died shortly after.
A baby kangaroo, also known as a wallaby, is bringing smiles to veterans at a local nursing home. The wallaby as part of a program involving animals to bring love and humanity to nursing home residents. Nursing home residents have the benefit of lowered blood pressure and loving interaction that reduces the sterile nature of a nursing home.”When you live in a nursing home, you want it to be as close to living at home as possible,” said the nursing home administrator, who keeps the baby…
A nursing home has been fined for multiple violations of quality care. The state health department has the facility under an investigation. The same nursing home was already fined previously for violations and the past year.The loved one of a nursing home patient had to pull her father out of the facility after accusing the nursing home of sedating him.
Two former nursing home employees have been charged with neglect of a nursing home patient. The patient was transferred to another facility for a pressure ulcer on his heel, and was found to be pale and covered in vomit upon admission. An investigation ensued to discover what was wrong with the patient.“Upon further examination of the Foley catheter the nurses discovered that the balloon of the catheter had only been inserted approximately 1 1/2 to 2 inches int he penis and the infla…
A state run nursing home has already paid more than $277,000 cumulatively. In addition the same facility is paying about $70,000 per month for a consultant to help bring the facility in compliance with new federal regulations. If the facility does not comply, it may lose funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. The facility offered that most of its violations fall within lack of reporting incidents at its dementia facility.
Government officials raided a nursing home for documents on grounds it diverted $4 million of the facility’s funds. Union workers accused the nursing home of moving their retirement funds before claiming bankruptcy. The workers filed claims against the nursing home when funds when missing from pay check stubs.Workers also accused the CFO of the company of diverting their pay check wages to himself and a religious charity.
