Kentucky Nursing Home Recieves Type A Citation
The Kentucky Injury Law Blog has posted an article about another case of nursing home mistreatment.
Bluegrass Care and Rehabilitation Center received a Type A Citation, the most severe citation, because some of its employees were using their cell phones to take pictures of the residents without their consent. The pictures were then sent to other nursing home employees with sexual song lyrics attached. No one reported the incidents because it happened often and was not seen as a type of abuse.
Apparently, the nursing home ever directly told employees that kind of behavior was unacceptable...although certainly it should have been automatically understood. The nursing home also failed to enforce the rule that prohibited employees from carrying cell phones on residential floors.
The administrator for the nursing home said that the facility had conducted a complete investigation and a number of employees had been let go.
