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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Terrible conditions in Cincinnati nursing home
The fact that there were that many violations speaks to a strong likelihood that the residents were receiving poor care and were victims of nursing home neglect. It also speaks powerfully to the failure of the state agency charged with ensuring that nursing home operators toe the line on patient care. The newspaper had this to say:
After patients at the Cincinnati nursing home are found new places in which to reside, local and state officials have a variety of questions to answer. Why were conditions at the home overlooked - or excused - apparently for years?Even more disturbing: How many other nursing home patients are being forced to endure similar, unacceptable conditions?
It has been said that the measure of a society is how well it takes care of its most helpless members. Clearly, society - or, rather, government agencies on which we depend to safeguard the most helpless - failed at the Cincinnati nursing home.After patients at the Cincinnati nursing home are found new places in which to reside, local and state officials have a variety of questions to answer. Why were conditions at the home overlooked - or excused - apparently for years?
The idea that a society can be measured by how we care for and protect our most vulnerable members is a setiment with which I strongly agree, and is one of the reasons that I represent the victims of nursing home abuse and neglect cases.
Labels: Nursing home abuse and neglect
posted by Barry Doyle at 6:37 AM
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Here is some information on the risks of bedsores that might be useful. More at http://nursetom.com
In making the assessment, your admitting nurse must determine whether anyone or more of the following risk factors exist:
age over 60
spinal cord paralysis
stroke
nervous system disease
poor circulation
diabetes
confined to bed
altered level of consciousness
confusion
bladder incontinence
bowel incontinence
diarrhea
anemia
dehydration
malnutrition
obesity
emaciation
reduced mobility (traction or body cast)
The usual procedure is to assign a value of 1 to each risk factor and add up those that exist. The totals then translate to one of the three levels of risk as follows: 0 to 6 indicates low risk, 7 to 13 indicates moderate risk, 14 to 18 indicates high risk. The parts of the body that are susceptible to pressure ulcers are the heels, ankles, knees, buttocks, tailbone, lower spine, shoulder blades, ears, and back of the head.
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