Unattended Nursing Home Patient Falls Down Stairway In Wheelchair
Particularly when it comes to physically disabled patients, nursing homes must take steps to protect them from harm due to potentially dangerous conditions at the facility. When facilities fail to take basic steps to safeguard patients from these environmental hazards, we frequently see patients getting severely injured or killed. A recent example of nursing homes failure to take basic precautions to safeguard a patients comes from a Missouri nursing home, where a wheelchair-bound patient was left unattended-- and without engagement of wheel lock-- in a stairway at the facility. Stltoday is reporting that the above circumstance forms the basis of...
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Investigations May Not Always Hold The Answers To How A Nursing Home Injury Or Death Occurred
Like many families, Kenneth Gall sought a sense of closure with respect the circumstances surrounding his mother's death after she sustained an injury during her admission to Presbyterian Homes of Arden Hills. Unfortunately, more than a year after his mother's death, questions still remain as to the facilities role in the matter-- and how a disabled, primarily bed-bound-woman managed to fracture her neck while admitted to a nursing home. Was it due to a fall? Was the fracture related to violence? Did Mrs. Gall get entangled in a bed rail? What is known is that 91-year-old Gladys Gall died about...
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Fall Leaves Veteran With Broken Neck In Illinois Nursing Home
Capital Care Center, an Illinois nursing home, has been fined by federal health officials for failing to prevent an dementia resident from tumbling down an unsecured stairway in his wheelchair. Illinois Department of Public Health reports claim Alfred 'Stan' Catherwood, a World War II veteran, suffered from dementia and was considered a high risk for wandering from the nursing home. Despite being a 'high risk' for wandering, the nursing home allowed Mr. Catherwood to sit strapped into his wheelchair near a second floor stairway. The stairway was unequipped with a key-code lock or automated alarm. Without knowledge of the nursing home...
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Dangerous Facilities Forced To Turn Away New Residents
Poor quality care is preventing some nursing homes in Tennessee from accepting new residents. In the past several years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of complaints directed to health and safety of the residents. Accusations of serious safety violations are getting attention from state inspectors. At Nashville's RiverPark Health Center, a complaint of a resident fall caught investigators' attention. The complaint alleged that following the fall, the nursing home staff ignored the resident's cries for help. It turns out the resident had broken his neck and eventually died from his injuries. The investigation revealed that not...
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