Editorial: The Woodlands: Why? Time for answers and accountability at Portage County’s nursing home
Sunday, September 16th, 2007.
Bedford, OH - Portage County commissioners are planning to hire a firm to review operations at The Woodlands at Robinson “from top to bottom” and make recommendations to remedy the shortcomings that put the county-run facility’s Medicare/Medicaid status in jeopardy.
It shouldn’t take an outside firm to answer these questions:
- Why weren’t three allegations of the sexual abuse of a “frail, vulnerable” woman patient investigated after they first were noted by nursing home staffers?
- Why wasn’t a proper protection plan put into place to safeguard the woman, who is unable to move her arms and legs?
- Why weren’t the nursing home administrator, who is hired by the commissioners, and the director of nursing aware of the abuse allegations documented by the staff?
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