Failure to Provide Medicine, Therapy, and Supervision is Nursing Home Abuse
By nursing-home-lawyer | April 24, 2007
Here’s a look at some of the types of patient-care violations that are symptomatic of nursing home abuse.
azdailysun.com -Â Tucson nursing home fined
Monday, April 23, 2007 8:05 AM MST
TUCSON AP — A Tucson nursing home has been fined more than $20,000 for failing to give medications to 21 patients over four days last winter and for other patient-care violations.
Waverly Park Healthcare will have to pay a $20,250 fine for the violations.
It is the second fine in excess of $20,000 that Waverly Park has paid to the Arizona Department of Health Services in the last three years. In 2004, the home paid $20,500 after three patients were hospitalized because of care issues.
The most recent fine came after four of 21 patients who did not revive medications for four days were at risk for serious complications, said Sylvia Balistreri, director of the states long-term care licensing division.
She said one of the patients missed seven daily doses of a drug used to control a potentially life-threatening heart arrhythmia.
Health department surveyors also found the nursing home suspended its “restorative therapy” program for 30 days. That meant many patients ended up in wheelchairs because they werent being walked or getting other therapy needed to maintain mobility.
The health department said the home also failed to properly care for patients bedsores, and cited the home for causing two lower-leg fractures in an elderly resident with severe osteoporosis.
The home also was cited for not supervising a resident who was not supposed to smoke without supervision. Investigators found the resident had burn holes in his clothing, Balistreri said.
Health department officials said Friday they expect Waverly Parks new administrator to put the nursing home back on track.
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Topics: Arizona Nursing Home Director, Bedsores and Pressure Sores |
