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… Continue Reading
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Staff Need To Protect Disabled Nursing Home Patients As They Transport Them In Wheelchairs
Posted in Disabled PatientsNo 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… Continue Reading
When Patient Safety Is An Afterthought, Employee Carelessness Frequently Results In Patient Injury
Posted in Broken Bones, Dropped Patients, Nursing Home InjuryMany 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… Continue Reading
Medical Facilities Must Use Wheel-Locks & Supervision To Protect Patients In Wheelchairs
Posted in Nursing Home Falls, Nursing Home InjuryPerhaps the most basic safeguard nursing homes and hospitals can implement with wheelchair patients is the utilization of wheel-locks. Too often, physically disabled patients are simply propped up in their wheelchairs with the assumption that they face little chance of getting injured. However, as I have discussed before, wheelchair patients must be properly supervised… Continue Reading
Erratic Driving Lands Nursing Home In Court
Posted in National Nursing Home IssuesUnknown 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… Continue Reading