Nursing Home Resident Chokes To Death On Dinner
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has fined The Crossings, a New York nursing home $13,300 for failing to provide emergency medical treatment to a choking resident. The fine involves an October 15, 2007 incident where an 89-year-old woman was left unattended by a nurse as she ate her dinner. The nurse returned to the woman's room to find the woman with her mouth open, not breathing and here lips were blue. The nurse failed to call a 'code blue' to the situation and woman died. A 'code blue' alerts the nursing home staff to a dangerous situation...
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