Michigan Nursing Home Inspection Report The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) conducts yearly inspections of nursing homes and long-term care facilities to ensure they are compliant with state and federal regulations. Nursing home violations are documented in…
Michigan Nursing Home Resident Found in Immediate Jeopoardy of Choking
Michigan Nursing Home Inspection Report The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) conducts yearly inspections of nursing homes and long-term care facilities to ensure they are compliant with state and federal regulations. Nursing home violations are documented in…
Unattended Woman Breaks Hip in a Fall, Dies of Complications
On September 12, 2010, Ms. G, a resident of the Shiawassee County Medical Care Facility in Corunna, Michigan, was attending church services in the dining room with no caregiver to supervise her. She got up from her wheelchair and tried…
Confused Woman Breaks Ankle after Escaping Through Unlocked Window in Nursing Home
Olsman, Mueller, Wallace & MacKenzie has filed suit against Bortz of Rose City on behalf of an elderly woman for negligently allowing her to elope from the dementia unit through an unsecured bedroom window, breaking her ankle. Ms. F was…
Trip Over Wheelchair Foot Pedals Causes Fatal Head Injury at Tendercare of Portage, MI
Olsman, Mueller, Wallace, and MacKenzie has filed suit on behalf of an elderly woman who tripped over her foot pedals and fell backwards, hitting her head. She died the next day as a result of complications from the head injury. …
Negligence at Brittany Manor Nursing Center Results in Hip Fracture and Death
An elderly woman rolled out of bed and suffered a debilitating hip fracture and head injury at Brittany Manor in Midland, Michigan, on June 5, 2010. It was the third time she had fallen out of bed in that facility….
Man Suffers Multiple Injuries After Falling From the Third Story of a Nursing Home
Two days after being admitted to St. Anne’s Convalescent Center in Detroit for short-term, post-operative rehabilitation and IV antibiotics, a man escaped his room by tying together bed sheets and climbing out of his third story room. The nursing home…
Resident diagnosed with legal blindness attempts to shave, results in injury.
New Light Nursing Home in Detroit, MI, was cited for inadequate supervision which resulted in injury that occurred on December 12, 2011. A resident diagnosed with legal blindness, alzheimer’s and dementia somehow obtained a razor and attempted to shave his…
Elopement results in serious injury at Father Murray Nursing and Rehab Centre (Centerline, MI)
On December 9, 2011, a resident of Father Murray Nursing and Rehab Centre left the facility unnoticed and was injured. The resident used a wheelchair and was diagnosed with dementia, but more particularly, he was prone to wander into other…
UNNECESSARY HOSPITALIZATIONS AMONG NURSING HOME RESIDENTS
On March 15, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services initiated a program to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home residents. The study found 45% of hospital admissions among skilled care nursing home residents could have been avoided….