Improper Maintenance Of Lift Device Costs Nursing Home Patient Their Life
Inadequate maintenance of a lift is responsible for the death of a patient at Eskaton Care Center Manzanita (California). The lift at issue is used to help staff transfer physically disabled patients into and out of their bed. According to an investigation completed by the California Department of Health, the 60-year-old nursing home patient was being transported from a wheelchair to bed when the sling on the lifting device broke and causing the patient to fall to the floor and suffer a head injury which subsequently caused his death. The agency determined that the nursing home failed to perform the...
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California Nursing Home's Failure To Provide Fall-Prevention Safeguards Results In A Substantial Fine
Too little, too late-- best summarizes Pilgrim Haven Health Facility of Los Angeles, reaction to fall-prevention measures suggested by a patient's physician and the facility itself. The omissions appear to be responsible for the fall-related death of an 85-year-old man and have initiated a substantial fine by the California Department of Health. In the course of investigating the death of the elderly patient, authorities determined that Pilgrim Health made numerous errors with respect to its medical treatment of a patient with a history of falling. After an initial fall in October, 2009, fall precautions were order by the man's physician...
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Use Of Restraints Amongst Nursing Home Patients Has Been Reduced More Than 50% Over The Last Decade. Is It Enough?
When you consider forms of cruel treatment, maybe you consider beds of nails or solitary confinement? However, another form of cruel treatment-- the use of restraints, is commonly used with innocent nursing home patients. At some facilities, patient restraints are a commonly used tool used by facilities in lieu of providing actual hands-on patient care by facility staff. In the past, nursing homes used physical restraints such as: bed rails, lap belts, vests, wrist ties and special chairs to assist them in literally controlling their patients. In addition to de-humanizing patients, the use of restraints was attributed to rapid physical...
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Nursing Home Operators May Be Responsible For Injuries Due To The Negligent Removal Of Snow & Ice
As winter weather sets in, the city is often covered in a blanket of snow and ice. While the slippery weather conditions present a danger to all of us, snow and ice are particularly dangerous for older adults who are already more likely to suffer from a fall and also more likely to suffer bone breaks and injuries. Nursing home residents rely on the nursing home property owners (nursing home operators and manager) to provide a facility free of dangers that might cause dangerous falls or accidents. This responsibility includes the removal of snow and ice, which creates a...
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Even Common Falls Put Elderly At Risk For Developing Subdural Hematomas
Frequently undiagnosed and under-appreciated, falls amongst the elderly can frequently result in brain bleeds or technically termed 'subdural hamatoas'. Because elderly are predisposed to developing subdural hamatomas, staff in nursing homes and hospitals need to be tuned into the symptoms and when to seek additional medical care. What is a subdural hematoma? A subdural hematoma is a type of intracranial bleeding (hemorrhage), caused by head injury. Subdural hematomas occur when blood vessels burst in the space between the brain and the outermost membrane that covers the brain (dura mater). The collection of blood forms a hematoma, which puts pressure...
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Videotape Confirms Resident Murdered By Peer At North Carolina Facilty
Daniel East, a resident at David's House, an assisted living facility has been charged with the murder of Jeremiah Daniel Love-- his co-resident. The surveillance video shows East striking his fellow resident in the head with a metal cane. Love died shortly after the incident at Wake Forest University from closed head injuries. East was arrested on unrelated charges-- for threatening to beat a David's House employee with a cane-- on the day that Love died. East has a criminal history including: time served for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, assault on a female and driving...
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Nursing Home Negligence Results In Death Of Nun
A 90-year-old nun who was a resident at Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center in New York died following a head injury when a stand alone closet fell and hit her on the head. The woman sustained injuries to her head and face. She was transferred to a local hospital where she succumbed to her injures. This was the third incident within a year at Summit Park Nursing Home involving similar closets falling and injuring a resident. Incidents involving injury to nursing home residents must be reported to authorities. However neither of the similar incidents involving falling armoires were...
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