Seven nursing homes in one area have been fined for violations relating to deficiencies in patient care. The facilities were fined more than $125,000 for the citations collectively. One citation involved a patient that wandered from the facility in shorts and a t-shirt, later found outside in 38 degree weather when alarms did not sound upon his exit.
Other incidents involved death by strangulation and exploitation on social media. Still another incident involved failure to properly treat the pressure sores of two patients at the same facility. According to a statement in a report, “The dressing [was] not changed everyday. Sometimes it [went] two or three days without the dressing being changed.” For more, read the story.
