State Fines Nursing Home Where Patients Drowns In Puddle In Front Of Facility
Wandering in a potentially deadly problem for nursing home patients with dementia and other medical conditions that make them unable to appreciate the dangers around them. While not a common problem, wandering from nursing homes puts particularly vulnerable patients at risk for harming themselves when they find themselves in the outside world with no one to look after them. Just 200 feet from the doors to the nursing home where she was a patient, a 92-year woman left the facility without the knowledge of the facility staff and managed to fall into a shallow puddle nearby and drown. Authorities from...
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Authorities Investigate North Carolina Nursing Home After Lab Test Determines Patient's Death Related To Morphine Overdose
Officials at the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation are looking into the nursing care provided to patients at the Britthaven of Chapel Hill nursing home after laboratory tests confirmed that the death of an Alzheimer's patient may have been related to a morphine overdose. The investigation was triggered after the blood lab results determined that an 84-year-old patient at the facility had 'toxic' levels of morphine in her body at the time of her death. Lab results revealed that the nursing home patient had morphine levels of more than 50,000 nanograms per milliliter at the time of her death. Putting...
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Hefty Fine Imposed On A Kindred Nursing Home For Failing To Report Potential Abuse To Authorities
Officials from the North Carolina Department of Health and Medicare slapped a $210,000 fine on Sunnybrook Healthcare and Rehabilitation following an investigation that determined the facility failed to identify and report serious bruising of a resident. As we discussed, authorities were alerted after 88-year-old Della Jarrett was found with multiple facial bruises. Staff at Sunnybrook offered no explanation for the bruising despite the fact that Weaver was bed-bound, making any self-inflicted injury virtually impossible. Jarrett's daughter's complaint triggered an investigation into the matter by North Carolina officials. Despite the visible bruising, officials were unable to confirm if the bruises...
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Broken Door Alarm Cited In Investigation Of Nursing Home Residents Death
On February 2nd, Carrie 'Christine' Evans wandered from Primrose Villa Nursing Home just a few hundred yards to her death. Officials from the North Carolina Medical Examiner's office concluded that Ms. Evans' death was due to a closed head injury after a fall. The incident occurred less than 1/5 of a mile from the North Carolina nursing home. There were similar episodes where Ms. Evans' wandered from the facility prior to this incident. The investigation into Evans' death also confirmed the following: Primrose Villa had been visited by state inspectors 28 times in the past two years despite the fact...
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$50,000 Penalty Sought Against Nursing Home Where Resident Fell To Her Death
The North Carolina Nursing Home, where an Alzheimer's patient recently fell to her death after she literally wheeled herself through multiple sets of unlocked doors will likely face a fine of $50,000 -- the maximum penalty. As we recently discussed, on December 18th, 87-year-old Annie Bell Scarboro went unnoticed by staff at the Five Oaks Manor in Concord, and wandered through several doors and kitchen area and onto an unlit and unguarded loading dock where she fell four feet to her death. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services suggests the nursing home be fined $10,000 per day...
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Dangerous Nursing Home Ordered To Close Following Discovery Of Conditions Posing 'Immediate Jepardy' To Its Residents
I was recently forwarded an articled from Indyweek.com, regarding the outrageously horrid conditions at Forest View Rehabilitation Center in Durham, North Carolina. The article highlights multiple incidents of downright disgusting patient care and dangerous living conditions that resulted in authorities ordering the facility to shut its doors. Among the conditions documented by state nursing home inspectors in their investigations reveal the following: Failure to provide pain medication to residents with advanced pressure sores Sexual assaults committed on mentally disabled residents by other residents at the facility Fire ant bites on residents bodies Urinary tract infections- there is documentation that the...
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Report Concludes Nursing Home Negligence Caused Resident's Death
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has issued a report very critical of the nursing care provided to an Alzheimer's patient who recently died from injuries she sustained from a fall. The report follows an extensive investigation of the nursing practices at Five Oaks Manor Nursing Home. The resident at issue is 87-year-old Annie Bell Scarboro who died from head injuries related to a fall from a loading dock off the kitchen. The state's report indicates that on December 18th, Scarboro managed to wheel herself in her 'merry walker' through three sets of unlocked doors to the outside area without the...
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