Patients at a nursing home suffered effects from bed bugs even after nursing staff raised concerns of the possibility of an infestation. Patients were itching and suffered from rashes before exterminators were called to treat the facility for the bugs. Nursing home employees say they notified administration months before the issues was addressed. A certified nursing assistant identified a beg bug crawling on a patient’s leg and turned it in to the interim director of nursing who then denied it was a bed bug.
“Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to document the ongoing status and healing of identified skin issues; failed to show what measures were taken for the prevention of insect bites to the skin, which potentially contributed to skin infections; failed to show what measures were taken to ensure ongoing preventative measures were taken after a concern was voiced that bed bugs were observed in the resident’s bed,” the report said of one resident. For more, read the story.
