A nursing home patient covered in flames was observed by a passerby who called 911. The flaming patient was smoking outside a nursing home facility with another patient. The patients were unable to control or put out the flames on the patient's shirt and pants. The nursing home facility was cited by the state deeming the patient should have been under better supervision while smoking.
Another patient went out to smoke months earlier and was found eight hours later on the ground. “That screams problems, huge problems, with the staff being understaffed or undertrained, or unsupervised, but they certainly weren't monitoring the patients like they should have been,” said an advocate for patients in nursing homes. For more, read the story.
