Some of these citations include: failing to notify a doctor when a 90-year-old resident’s health worsened and failure to notify a doctor when a patients lab results were abnormal resulting in her death.

The home was also cited for not preventing maggots from a man’s wound on his scalp. The nursing home was added to a federal list of troubled nursing homes that need improvement in their quality of care. The nursing home can voluntarily surrender their license or contest the revocation.

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The three nurses were caught on a video tape set up by the victim’s granddaughter, who was concerned that her grandmother was being abused. The tape showed the nurse’s aides eating the woman’s food, taunting her, and grabbing her by the neck. The nurses are being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s office, and are also facing civil litigation brought by the family of the victim.

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State senators believe that the nursing homes could be perpetrating civil rights abuses, because nursing homes caring for black patients provide a lower level of care than those caring for white patients. They hope to introduce legislation to correct the problem.

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