Embattled nursing home, state begin closure process
Friday, January 20th, 2006.
The state Attorney General’s Office filed a civil suit Jan. 5 asking a judge to shut down Jennifer Matthew [Nursing and Rehabilitation Center] in the wake of an attorney general’s investigation that involved a hidden camera being placed in a patient’s room to monitor care. Court papers say a 70-year-old man, who suffers from dementia, was not turned regularly, checked for incontinence or given adequate food or hydration while the camera was in place from April to June 2005.
Fourteen Jennifer Matthew nurse’s aides and nurses have been arrested on charges of willful violation of health law and falsifying records, with nine of those workers pleading guilty to lesser charges.
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