Mass Drugging and Mass Violations in Lomita Nursing Home
A review of the drug regimens for 27 residents at Palos Verdes Health Care Center revealed inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs to control the behavior of many residents in the facility.
Violation of the Month Archive
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Stockton Nursing Home Resident Walks Off and Killed by Train
July, 2020 On 8/3/2019, a male resident of Stockton Nursing Center was found dead after being struck by a train one day after he left the facility unsupervised.
Mentally Ill Solorzano Nursing Home Resident Injured While Left Unsupervised
April, 2020 On 9/17/2019, during an investigation of an unrelated complaint, a 59 year old male resident with mental illness was observed in the facility pacing with bleeding from the left side of his face and body.
Nursing Home Resident Dies after Solorzano Nursing Home Dumps him Into a No Care Home
A 61 year old male wheelchair-bound resident with blood clots and a colostomy was found dead in an unlicensed care facility on 8/12/19 after being discharged by the nursing facility on 7/10/19.
Solorzano Nursing Home Dumps Four Residents Into a No Care Home
February, 2020 Hyde Park Healthcare Center, a nursing home in Los Angeles owned by Crystal Solorzano, was recently found to have dumped four residents, all of whom had extensive care needs, into an unlicensed care facility in April, May, and June of 2019. The facility staff failed to complete adequate discharge planning for all four residents, including failure to assess whether the residents’ needs could be met in the unlicensed home. The facility failed to get input from the residents’ physicians and failed to properly notify the residents of their evictions. One resident, with tuberculosis (TB), was sent to the unlicensed home with the wrong medications and failed to receive his TB medication for 18 days after his eviction. Another dumped resident had diabetes and a third had end stage renal disease, raising concerns about their ability to get needed insulin and dialysis, respectively. At the time of the investigation, the whereabouts of two residents were unknown.
LA Nursing Home Makes Habit of Dumping Residents
The residents of Vernon Healthcare Center may be happy to say goodbye to 2019 after the facility spent much of the year getting citations for illegally dumping residents into inappropriate settings unfit to meet their care needs.
Resident Dies From Foul-Ups, Failures, and a Bad Fall at Lawndale Healthcare & Wellness
An 82 year old female resident with partial paralysis, muscle weakness, and cognitive impairments fell from her bed on 7/17/19 and sustained significant injuries that put her in a persistent vegetative state.
Elderly Resident Suffering from Dementia Sexually Abused at Bellflower Post Acute
On 9/13/18, two days after she was admitted to Bellflower Post Acute, a 75-year-old resident with dementia was sexually abused by a 60-year-old male resident who had been exhibiting inappropriate sexual behavior and demanding other residents to have sex with him.
Maclay Healthcare Center in Sylmar Cited for Severe Neglect Which Led to Live Maggots in Resident’s Mouth
The facility failed to provide mouth care to a resident who was totally dependent on staff for activities of daily living.
Long Beach Healthcare Center Cited for Severe Neglect in Death of Resident
On February 1, 2019, the California Department of Public Health issued a Class AA citation to Long Beach Healthcare Center and fined it $100,000 for neglect that led to the death of a long-time resident on September 11, 2018.