A nursing home received hefty fines and a blistering report after allowing multiple incidents in the facility that went unreported. The patients remaining in the facility were deemed in “immediate jeopardy”. The state fined the nursing home $200,000 and closed all federal aid as part of the repercussions of the incident report.
One patient was allowed to die after not being resuscitated. Nursing home staff did not report the patient's death because he “had no family” and did not want to alert state officials to the incident due to recent “bad press” for the parent company of the nursing home facility.
Another patient was sexually assaulted, but the incident was not reported until 8 days after the incident. These incidents and numerous others were identified when the state performed an unannounced inspection. For more, read the story.
