A nursing home is reworking its plan of correction after finding the original submission was unacceptable. The plan was required after a state survey followed the death of a patient. The death involved a patient who was dropped and suffered broken legs, and died just two days later.
The state has offered the facility five days to resubmit a plan of correction adequate to meet the needs of patients and correct the issues highlighted in the survey inspection report. If the nursing home does not make compliance with its new plan of correction, it will lose state funding from medicare and medicaid. For more, read the story.