The tragic death of Lucy Garcia, a resident of the Arbors at Oregon nursing home, highlights another severe example of neglect in the nursing home industry. The nursing home allowed Garcia to develop a fatal pressure injury. She died from a Stage 4 pressure ulcer that was not prevented or treated. The facility imposed unreasonable
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported a tremendous victory. A Little Rock jury agreed with the family of Zelma Grissom that neglect caused her wrongful death. Grissom was the mother of six who resided at the Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center. Joseph Schwartz is the New York owner of the failed Arkansas nursing home chain,
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office arrested two caregivers neglecting to care for the wounds of two residents at Magnolia Manor-Spartanburg. The nursing home is part of the Fundamental family of companies. Fundamental Administrative Services and Fundamental Clinical and Operational Services manage and operate the facility owned by New York real estate multi-millionaire Murray
Unnecessary Amputation NBC News reported the bizarre case in Wisconsin. Nurse Mary K. Brown removed the right foot of a resident at Spring Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center. Police accuse a nurse of amputating a patient’s foot without permission. Apparently, she wanting to display it in her family’s taxidermy shop. Police charged Brown with physical
Unreliable Data Health Leaders warned families not to rely on self-reported data. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established the Nursing Home Compare website in the 1990s to publicly report patient safety indicators for every nursing facility in the nation. Nursing homes self-report quality measures or clinical indicators to CMS. This data
A new study from University of Chicago researchers shows that self-reported data from nursing homes are inaccurate, unreliable, and, often, false. For example, nursing home operators underreport the number of pressure injuries in residents by as much as 40%. Researchers found that nursing homes self-reported only 59.7% of hospitalized pressure injuries between stages 2 and