Veterans Nursing Home Ends Wheelchair Program After Resident Falls
A major veterans home in Marshalltown, Iowa has discontinued a program where residents got paid to transport other residents in wheelchairs.The decision to end the program came after a wheelchair-bound resident fell face-first onto a cement ramp.Home Commandant David Worley says the accident exposed a lack of training and raised serious questions about safety. “We just hadn’t followed up [on the wheelchair escort program],” he said. David Werning, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, says the program “may well have been a case of good intentions that went awry.”On September 29, a male employee was...
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Staff Need To Protect Disabled Nursing Home Patients As They Transport Them In Wheelchairs
No one seems to give much thought to transporting a nursing home patient in a wheelchair throughout the facility or outside on the facilities grounds. Just push the patient in the chair to where they need to go? Right? Well, like most tasks, there really is quite a bit more to it than is originally apparent. In order for patients to be safely transported in wheelchairs staff need to take precautions to make sure that the patient arrives where they need to be in a safe manner. Though not a well-publicized topic, injuries resulting from faulty wheelchairs and staff negligence...
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When Patient Safety Is An Afterthought, Employee Carelessness Frequently Results In Patient Injury
Many long-time Nursing Home Abuse Blog readers have heard me rant about how many of the commonly encountered problems--- and resulting injuries encountered by nursing home patients occur as the result of one thing--- employee carelessness! Sure, the implementation of educational programs at nursing homes my help get patient safety back into the minds of staff members, but even the best safety programs require careful and conscientious staff to see that that are properly implemented. In this sense, one of most disturbing trends I am seeing--- particularly, amongst patients in nursing homes and hospitals--- is patients getting injured while they...
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Erratic Driving Lands Nursing Home In Court
Unknown to many, some nursing homes and long-term care facilities have buses, vans, and cars to transport nursing home residents to appointments outside of the facilities. When nursing home take on this responsibility, they must take necessary steps to provide safe transportation. For many nursing home residents, this mean securing wheelchairs, providing an adequate supply of medication and staff sufficient personnel to assure safety. This recently filed lawsuit, involving the wrongful death of a wheelchair-bound nursing home resident is a reminder that nursing home staff must take extra precaution when transporting nursing home residents. The lawsuit against Fort Armstrong Assisted...
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