Nursing home reports abuse; 2 charged
Saturday, October 8th, 2005.
Hanover, IN - A female resident of Hanover Nursing Center was hit repeatedly on the face by an employee while two others watched, but the abuse wasn’t reported for four days. It was an incident that the nursing home’s administrators say was isolated but far-reaching in its fallout.
The nursing home fired about nine employees, most of them for not reporting the abuse or their suspicions of abuse and two of them who were identified by others as the abuser and an observer of the abuse. The nursing home also fired the medical director for not documenting her examination of the resident after the attack and for not reporting her suspicion about the injuries.
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