Several elder-care facilities fined for violations
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006.
Tuscon, AZ - An elderly woman died last December when staff members at her assisted-living center confused her medication orders with her husband’s.
An 86-year-old man with dementia died after falling, cutting his head and breaking a hip in March — the fifth time he had fallen in 2 1/2 months.
An exhausted and exasperated caregiver was fired one morning in February, immediately after slapping an elderly man twice across the face.
Those incidents constituted some of the most serious violations over the past year of state rules meant to protect the vulnerable people who live in assisted-living centers and nursing homes. The violations cost the facilities — all of them in Tucson — more than $15,000 in penalties.
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