Category: Reported Accidents & Injuries
Are Anti-Psychotics Being Prescribed to Nursing Home Patients Who Don’t Need Them?
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on May 9, 2012Researchers have long contended that far too many nursing home patients are being given anti-psychotic drugs, whether they need them or not. In many cases, nursing home staff uses these drugs in order to make patients with Dementia easier to handle – in other words, as a kind of restraint. … Read the Rest
Scabies Outbreaks Can Endanger Nursing Home Residents
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on April 27, 2012The Hillcrest Health Care facility in Ownesboro, Kentucky was closed for a few days last week as administration and staff attempted to get a scabies outbreak under control. Residents and staff were all treated and the nursing home has since reopened. At this point, it’s not clear how the scabies … Read the Rest
Unexplained Bruises Are Often a Result of Nursing Home Abuse
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on March 31, 2012The abuse or neglect of the elderly in nursing homes is far too common. In Kentucky, for example, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services released a report last year that showed social workers investigated 2,048 cases of suspected abuse and neglect in nursing homes or other long term facilities … Read the Rest
Nursing Homes Must Take Care with Patients Who Need Oxygen
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on February 28, 2012Last week, a New York City nursing home, Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, suffered a malfunction with its oxygen delivery system, affecting 10 elderly patients on ventilators. At least three of them were transferred to hospitals. While the cause of the malfunction is not clear, it’s worth … Read the Rest
Nursing Home Wheelchair Falls Are Preventable Tragedies
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on January 18, 2012Strapped into a wheelchair, 92-year-old Elvira Nunziata, a resident at Pinellas Park Care and Rehabilitation Center in Pinellas County, Florida, fell down the emergency exit stairs in 2004. It took an hour before staff even noticed she was gone. When they found her, she was still in the wheelchair … Read the Rest
Nursing Assistant Sent to Prison for Abusing Alzheimer’s Patient
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on January 16, 2012Last week, Virgen Caraballo, 45, a nursing assistant at the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Center at MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for abusing Esther Piskor, a 78-year-old Alzheimer’s disease patient at the nursing home, according to the Cleveland … Read the Rest
Prescription Errors on the Rise
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on November 30, 2011In December 2010, Darlene Felt, 84, a resident at Bethany Home in Alexandria, MN, was rushed to the hospital after complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath. She suffered a heart attack and died six days later. An investigation revealed that a terrible mistake had occurred: while Felt’s … Read the Rest
Smoking Represents A Serious Danger To Kentucky Nursing Home Residents
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on November 11, 2011Last week, two different fires placed nursing home residents in danger. At Somerset Court, a nursing home in Carteret County, North Carolina, one resident was burned and dozens of others had to be evacuated after a fire started in a resident’s room. A nurse managed to put out the fire with the … Read the Rest
Nursing Home Workers Top of the List of Workplace Injuries
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on November 4, 2011When you think of dangerous occupations, construction worker, deep sea fisherman or lion tamer is probably at the top of your list. Most people don’t usually guess ‘nursing home workers.’ Yet the U.S. Board of Labor Statistics just released a survey showing that nursing home workers are more … Read the Rest
New Details Suggest Neglect at Personal Care Home Led to Disappearance
Posted in Reported Accidents & Injuries on November 4, 2011On August 4, Larry Joe Lee, a resident at Falmouth Nursing Home, a personal care home in Falmouth, Kentucky went missing. Nearly a month later, on September 3, his body was found near the Licking River. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Office of the Inspector General launched an … Read the Rest
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