Nursing Home With History Of Problems Now Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit Related To Poor Care of Patient With Tracheostomy Tube
We've spent a fair amount of time talking about nursing homes on Medicare's Special Focus Facility (SFF) list, which can be simply referred to as a compilation of the country's worst nursing homes. As the name implies, nursing homes appointed to the SFF list faced heightened scrutiny with more frequent inspections due to a pattern of improper care and patient neglect. Assuming facilities improve the care they provide to their patients, they can graduate from the list. For facilities not inclined to make the necessary changes, an uncertain future faces them as continued problems could result in cuts in...
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Investigation Into Nursing Home Resident's Death In Van Accident Begins
In some respects, nursing home patients are at a far greater risk for injury when they engage in non-traditional nursing home activities outside of the confines of the facility-- compared with the day-to-day care they typically receive in the course of their daily programs. While nursing home employees may receive a good deal of training when it comes to day-to-day care of patients, in other aspects of patient care there maybe less emphasis on training--- and consequently an increased liklihood of patient injury. The transportation of patients into or out of the nursing home is indeed a crucial part of...
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Is It Time For Nursing Homes To Implement More Safety Measures To Protect Patients From Visitors?
Would you open your front door and simply welcome in any visitor? I don't know where you live-- but I surely wouldn't! However, many nursing homes pretty much have an 'open door' policy when it comes to granting visitors access to their facility. Sure some facilities have a check-in desk where visitors can sign in and get an official looking sticker to put on their lapel, but rarely is there much more of a screening system in place to restrict access to these facilities. While the overwhelming majority of visitors indeed have very sincere intentions for their visit,...
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Morphine Intoxication Of Nursing Home Patient Results In Significant Jury Verdict
Following a three week trial, jurors in Michigan awarded the family of a deceased nursing home patient $4.85 million. The nursing home negligence lawsuit alleged Mercy Memorial Nursing Center was negligent in administering morphine, a commonly prescribed pain medication, to a man who was admitted to the facility for physical therapy following a non-displaced hip fracture. A coroner's report concluded that the man died from 'morphine intoxication'-- essentially an overdose of the medicine. According to the lawyer representing the nursing home patient's family, the facilities poor charting was probably to blame for the man's morphine overdose. "The document stuck out...
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Nursing Home Worker Admits To Molestation Of Disabled Resident
A 26-year-old man has admitted to the molestation of a mentally disabled woman he was responsible for caring for. The nursing home worker identified as, Daniel Griswald, confessed to multiple sexual encounters with a resident at Rest Haven Home, in Rest Haven, Michigan between March and May, 2008. According to Rest Haven Nursing Home administrator, Brian Wilson, Griswald was a, "good, solid, employee...nobody suspected anything of him." According to Wilson, Griswald passed an extensive background check that included a criminal record check and a checking of the Michigan Sex Offender Registry. Shockingly, Mr. Griswold left the facility's employ abruptly last...
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Michigan Court Strikes Nursing Home 'Arbitration Clause' And Allows Wrongful Death Case To Proceed In Court
A Michigan Court has stricken an 'arbitration clause' from a pending wrongful death lawsuit against a Michigan nursing home. In the case of High v. Capital Senior Living Properties, a nursing home resident's son filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility for failing to properly supervise his mother. Among the claims made in the lawsuit, the Plaintiff, Sidney High, claims the facility was negligent in allowing his mother (who had Alzheimer's) to wander from the facility and freeze to death. After filing the wrongful death lawsuit, Capital Senior Living filed a motion to dismiss and attempted to force the...
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More Information About Patient Care In Metron Nurisng Home
We recently discussed how the Metron Nursing Home in Allegan was losing its Medicare and Medicaid funding due to multiple violations in patient care. Now, more information has come to light about the the Michigan Attorney General's investigation and the forced sale of the facility. Two nursing home residents at Metron of Allegan died after nursing home workers failed to administer oxygen. The incidents follow a similar 2005 incident when, Sarah Comer died at the Metron of Big Rapids. The death of Comer lead to a lawsuit against the nursing home. In the course of litigation, allegations of nursing home...
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Michigan Court Dismisses Charges Against Nursing Home Workers Playing With A Corpse
Criminal charges were dismissed against three employees at Cherrywood Nursing and Living Center in Sterling, Michigan. The Michigan Court of Appeals dismissed the misdemeanor patient abuse charges that the employees were originally charged with. The court reasoned that the deceased nursing home resident could not be categorized as a patient because she was dead. In 2004, the nursing home employees were ordered to get the body of a deceased nursing home resident ready for transport to a funeral home. The threesome told the corpse to 'wake up' and took photographs of each other with the corpse. Read more about this...
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