Three employees of the Kern Valley Healthcare District’s skilled nursing facility have plead not guilty to multiple felony counts of elder abuse causing harm or death. The instances of nursing home abuse allegedly occurred between August 2006 and January 2007 when the employees intentionally over-medicated residents with anti-psychotic drugs at…
New York Nursing Home inspectors were recently called to investigate Hilltop Nursing Home, following two incidents where nurses at the facility gave insulin to non-diabetic residents. The residents went into shock and were hospitalized. According to a report from the New York Department of Public Health, the two incidents were…
The second most frequently encountered ‘never event’ is an infection from a central venous catheter. Infections due to improperly maintained and inplanted central venous catheters accounted for 29,536 cases in hospitals in 2007. A central venous catheter is a tube usually inserted in an arm or chest and threaded through…
The discussion on administration of medication at assisted living facilities at Inside Assisted Living, caught my attention. Inside Assisted Living is an extremely useful blog dedicated to helping residents and their families transition into assisted living facilities. A reader of the blog asked: ‘Ryan, my parents are now in an…
Ever go into a nursing home in the middle of the day? While the rest if the world busy about their business, many nursing home residents are sound asleep or staring blankly at the ceiling. Even may of the residents who appear to be awake have a dulled look in…
Failure to provide medication is a common problem facing nursing home residents. Many situations involving failure to provide medication result from problems with the transition of a resident’s medical charts from a hospital or facility where they were prior to their admission to the nursing home. Nonetheless, nursing homes have…
A Kansas hospital is using a bar coding system- the same technology that allows grocery clerks to quickly scan bags of groceries– to help with verification when administering medication at the bedside. Many hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities are quickly seeking new ways to cut down on the…