One patient at a troubled nursing home in northern New Jersey was found dead in bed, 12 hours after falling on a wet floor and suffering a head injury. Rigor mortis had set in. The patient had suffered from a high fever for days, but a doctor was never told.Sick residents who were awaiting the results
One patient at a troubled nursing home in northern New Jersey was found dead in bed, 12 hours after falling on a wet floor and suffering a head injury. Rigor mortis had set in. The patient had suffered from a high fever for days, but a doctor was never told.
The privately owned nursing home was found to have placed its residents in “immediate jeopardy” and has been fined $220,000. The median fine by the federal agency over the past three years was $13,000. She said staff members had been more responsive since last month, when federal and state inspectors began a review after police found 17 bodies piled in a small morgue and employees reported that conditions were dire.
It was also required to complete a plan to hire several new employees for crucial roles, including a chief nurse. The township of Andover had conducted its own inspection in mid-April and found that the facility did not have a sufficient number of body bags to adequately handle patients who had died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Murphy said Thursday that 120 National Guard members would be deployed at private nursing homes, including Andover.
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