Thursday, September 9th, 2010

In a story in the Star Tribune on Tuesday it was noted that Minnesota Department of Health Investigators concluded that Providence Place failed to change a resident’s care plan after she had twice previously tried to open a door to a stairway. The woman eventually opened the door and rolled down a stairwell in [...]



According to a story in The Journal, an International Falls Newpaper, titled: LMC nurse found negligent
A nurse employed by the Littlefork Medical Center has been found by the Minnesota Department of Health to have acted with neglect when failing to follow the facility’s policies and procedures when a resident began to have significant changes in [...]



There was another article this weekend on nursing home abuse and neglect in the Star and Tribune newspaper. The article focused on a nursing home resident from Crest View Lutheran Home in Columbia Heights who was in the facility for short term rehabilitation therapy. The gentleman who was unnamed in the story, had stopped breathing [...]