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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Nursing Home Spotlight: Alden Town Manor
Alden Town Manor is a skilled nursing facility in Cicero, IL that was recently cited by the Illinois Department of Health following a March 30, 2010 survey at the facility. The focus of the survey was related to a March 6, 2010 incident in which a patient fell at the facility and subsequently died due to head trauma and cervical fractures. An investigation into the incident revealed that Alden Town Manor failed to properly care for the patient in the following respects: 1. Assess a severely injured resident on the floor after a fall 2. Follow its own policy for...
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Never Event #1: Hospital Falls & Trauma
Falls in trauma top the list of preventable medical conditions in hospitals, accounting for 193,566 incidents in 2007. Falls in hospitals (and similarly in nursing homes) are deemed to be preventable by Medicare because with proper fall/risk assessments and staff assistance most falls in hospital could be avoided. A number of factors should be addressed by a hospital to determine if a person is at risk for falls: Medication that may effect balance or coordination Does the person normally use an assistive device like a walker or cane? If so, one should be provided by the facility at all times. Age....
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