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: Bodily Injury BlogNursing Home Blamed for Deadly Fall
By Edward Bills
A North Carolina nursing home may be ordered to pay as much as $50,000 in fines for safety violations that led to the death of an Alzheimer’s disease patient. According to the Charlotte Observer, the Five Oaks Manor in Concord failed to properly monitor the 87-year-old resident and failed prevent her from accessing a loading dock where she fell. The federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services must now determine whether to enforce the recommended fines.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).
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