Troubled care facility closes: The assisted-living home was called a “danger” after a resident’s death
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006.
Philadelphia, PA - Prompted by the suspicious death of a 63-year-old resident last weekend, state regulators yesterday closed a troubled Chester assisted-living home after deciding that conditions there “constitute an immediate and serious danger” to its occupants.
The state Attorney General’s Office and a state grand jury had been investigating allegations of fraud and criminal neglect at St. James Retirement & Rehabilitation Center after emergency-room workers removed 50 maggots from a resident’s open facial wound in September, according to public documents and interviews.
Records that documented care in that incident were falsified, according to a state inspection report.
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