Court Determines Nursing Home Corporation Can't Be Criminally Prosecuted For Employees' Negligent Conduct
The collective negligence of multiple nursing home employees does not impute criminal conduct on the part of the corporate owner according to a recent ruling made the Supreme Judicial Court-- the highest court in Massachusetts. The decision stems from the death of a 74-year-old patient at a MA nursing home owned by Life Care Centers of America. Despite the patient's extensive history with respect to wandering from the facility, the facility failed to take basic precautionary measures that would likely prevented the wheelchair-bound patient from falling down a set of stairs to her death. An investigation into the patient's death...
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"Life Care Center" Permitted To Accept New Patients After State Finds Poor Living Conditions
After a week where the facility was banned from accepting new residents, Life Care Center of Red Bank is now permitted to accept new patient admissions. One June 17th, the Tennessee Department of Heath Commissioner suspended new patient admissions to this Tennessee nursing home because of conditions encountered during a survey (inspection). During the survey inspectors found heath and safety violations concerning: Nursing home administration Performance improvement Physician services Nursing services Medical records Pharmaceutical services In addition to suspending admission of new patients, Life Care was issued a one-time civil penalty by the state and $6,150 per day until...
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