Nursing Home Reeceives Over 40 Citations for Resident Care
A Tulsa, OK nursing home has been the recipient of over 40 citations for violations in their residents’ care including six involving potentially life threatening situations. Some of the citations that were given included failure to protect against abuse, failure to provide necessary treatments including pain medication, failure to treat bed sores, and insufficient staffing and supervision.
State and federal authorities were forced to terminate Medicare and Medicaid payments made to the home resulting from 12 consecutive failed inspections, an action that state and federal officials have rarely had to do. In its defense, the nursing home has filed lawsuits against several people and organizations including nursing home inspectors and the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary. The suits claimed that inspectors fabricated documents to use as leverage against the nursing home and that the home was held to much higher than normal standards in terms of the inspections it is subjected to.
When a nursing home is cited several times and still fails to comply with regulations and orders to fix things in order to make the environment safer for residents, there should be no question whether they should be held liable for any accidents or injuries. The nursing home in this report blatantly disregarded the residents’ health and safety and failed to adequately maintain the proper number of staff members and they also failed to provide proper medical treatment for the residents. Living in a nursing home is difficult in itself because the residents have lost a large portion of their independence. When a nursing home seemingly deliberately fails to maintain its safety measures and does not treat its residents properly, they should be held responsible for the dangers they put their residents through.
