Cigarette Lighter Mishap Results In Severe Burns To Nursing Home Patient
Mr. Ellis's photo appears on wdsu.com Officials are investigating the circumstances surrounding the severe burns sustained by a 77-year-old nursing home patient in New Orleans. The man sustained burns to 80% of his body when his bed caught fire following the Super Bowel. The man identified as Hubert Ellis, was a non-smoker, yet fire investigators found two cigarette lighters in his bed that they believe started the fire. It is unclear if the smoke detector in Mr. Ellis's room was operating properly at the time of the incident. Similarly, the nursing home's response to the incident is under investigation as...
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Nursing Home Patient Sustains Serious Burns After Smoking In His Bed
A nursing home patient, connected to an oxygen line, sustained serious burns to his face and after his cigarette ignited the nasal line and the bed in which he was laying. The incident took place at Summit Park Nursing Home in New York. Nurses were able to extinguish the fire before the man sustained more serious burns to other parts of his body. Read more about this case involving smoking-related burns here. My take on this: Nursing homes need to create and implement smoking policies to cut-down on situations such as this. Most smoking policies forbid patients from smoking...
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Resident Who Smoked & Used Oxygen Suspected Of Causing Fire At Assisted Living Facility
A woman was killed in a fire at the Lebanon Manner Village assisted living complex in Indiana when a fire broke out in her apartment. The other buildings in the complex were evacuated. It took firefighters more than an hour to put out the flames according to Lebanon firefighter Wheat. Thirteen apartments were damaged by flames and almost the entire building sustained some kind of damage, Wheat said. Most of the residents at the assisted living facility will remain out of their apartments due to smoke and water damage. Officials did not release a cause of the fire, but friends said the victim smoked and was on oxygen....
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Ohio Nursing Home Fire Sparks Interest In Resident Safety
The report of a fire at Jaycee Village Retirement Community, an Ohio Nursing Home, demonstrates the importance of fire safety in all nursing homes. Although, no residents were injured, the episode demonstrates how a fire in a nursing home could severely harm residents who are unable to move quickly because they are bed-bound or in wheelchairs. In June, 2008 CMS, the governmental agency regulating Medicare and Medicaid funded nursing homes, gave all nursing homes receiving federal funding five years to phase in the installation of sprinkler systems at their facilities. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, fire...
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Burns In Nursing Homes
The National Fire Center, reports an annual average of 2 million fires in the United States. Those fires resulted in an annual average in excess of 27,000 civilian injuries, more than 4,000 deaths. Nursing home residents may sustain burns while at a nursing home facility. Common situations involving residents sustaining burns include: Baths- Staff failing to monitor the water temperature Smoking- Smoking especially around oxygen tanks can be disastrous Lighters- Senile patients playing with lighters Fires in the nursing home. Often nursing homes do not have proper alarms or fire-sprinklers Electric blankets- Staff failing to monitor patients who may...
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