A nursing home incident involving a patient who as dropped and allowed to suffer to broken legs died just days after the fall. The patient was supposed to receive assistance from two caregivers, however, a nursing aide said that she could not find anyone due to short staffing. “Although [the nursing assistant] looked in a lot of resident rooms and common areas, she could not find anyone to assist her,” the report states. The nursing assistant “said this was not unusual and in the past when she had asked for help she was told staff ‘were too busy,’ or ‘wait a few minutes but then [they] never show up,’ ” according to a report on the incident.
The patient was on blood thinners at the time of the fall and experienced internal bleeding from her injuries and was not taken to the hospital for X-rays until the day after the fall. Her family was not notified of the fall at the time either. State officials have cited the facility for the incident and plan to charge the facility ranging from $250 to $3,000 a day starting on the day of her fall. For more, read the story.
