Nursing home fined $100,000 in death: 4th state accusation for Escondido facility
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
San Diego, CA - An Escondido nursing home yesterday received the state’s most serious citation and a $100,000 fine after a resident receiving oxygen was left alone while smoking a cigarette. He caught fire and burned to death.
It is the fourth state accusation in three years against the 98-bed facility, now named Palomar Heights Care Center.
A state health official said the man’s death Jan. 11 is the second attributed to mismanagement by a California nursing home in at least a year.
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