Based on data from 226 nursing homes in the United States, the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report provides initial results that nursing homes can use to compare their elder patient safety culture to other U.S. nursing homes. The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and four appendixes, presenting data by nursing home characteristics and respondent characteristics for the database nursing homes. Patient Culture Survey Part 1 2011 Patient Culture Survey Part 2Nursing Home Survey...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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A Kentucky jury ruled Monday that Lexington's Cambridge Place Nursing Home should pay more than $1 million in damages to a resident who fell and was found severely injured in an equipment storage room.Irene Hendrix was found in January 2009 after she went missing while moving up and down the hall in a Merry Walker, a type of walker that includes a seat. She had broken bones in her face, there was bleeding in her brain, and she had a 4-centimeter cut on her forehead, a cut on her lip and a swollen eye, according to state documents.Hendrix,...
Saturday, October 22, 2011
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Data from the National Nursing Home Survey, 2004In 2004, about 159,000 current U.S. nursing home residents (11%) had pressure ulcers. Stage 2 pressure ulcers were the most common.Residents aged 64 years and under were more likely than older residents to have pressure ulcers.Residents of nursing homes for a year or less were more likely to have pressure ulcers than those with longer stays.One in five nursing home residents with a recent weight loss had pressure ulcers.Thirty-five percent of nursing home residents with stage 2 or higher (more severe)...
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Authorities say an 81-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder for allegedly beating to death his 94-year-old roommate at an Orange County nursing home. According to police, William McDougall allegedly took a bar used to hang clothes from a closet, and used it to repeatedly strike his roommate, Manh Ban Nguyen, about the head.94-Year-Old Beaten to Death in Nursing Home - By his 81-year-old roomm...
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