Alzheimer's Patient Fractures Her Neck As She Attempts To Crawl Out Of Window
Authorities in Missouri are looking for answers regarding how and why an Alzheimer's patient at Springfield Skilled Care Center fractured her neck. Police were summoned the the Missouri nursing home after the staff at the facility discovered the patients dead body on the ground outside of the facility. A preliminary autopsy demonstrated that the patient suffered from a fractured neck that apparently happened as the woman was wrangling her way through a window to the outdoors. As inspectors examine the circumstances surrounding this incident, news reports verify that Springfield Skilled Care Center has had troubles in the past. With a one...
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Nursing Home Bookkeeper Admits To Stealing Money From Facility
Sadly, at a time when many are feeling severe financial strain, some nursing home operators and employees are turning to another source of potential income-- stealing state and federal funds intended for nursing home patients. The most recent case of stealing or Medicare fraud-- which is essentially what most of these cases come down to because that is where most funds derive-- comes from Missouri. Connie Jean Beckerman, the former bookkeeper at Perryville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, pleaded guilty to: forgery, stealing by deceit, and abuse of a person receiving health care-- all felonies. The criminal acts were perpetuated between...
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It's Cold Out. Do You Know Where Your Nursing Home Resident Is?
Another completely preventable nursing home death recently made the headlines as reported in STLtoday. Employees at the Northgate Park Nursing Home left 95-year-old Fannie Mae Rooks in her wheelchair in an outdoor smoking area at the facility last week. Rooks reportedly died from exposure to the elements as she sat unattended in the cold weather. Local police investigators are trying to determine how Ms. Rooks made her way into the smoking area and how nursing home employees failed to keep track of her whereabouts. Once again, I am amazed how nursing homes continually fail to provide even the most basic...
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