Care Living Center in Edmond has lost its certification and federal funding leaving more than two dozen of it's residents searching for a new home. The date for federal funding to stop is May 27, 2009. The residents will have 30 days to find new homes.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health cited the nursing home for 'immediate jeopardies'; believing that "there is an imminent danger to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents."
The Health Department's inspectors found one resident with 17 pressure ulcers who was not receiving appropriate treatment ordered by a physician.
Other examples of nursing home abuse at the Center:
The Oklahoma State Department of Health cited the nursing home for 'immediate jeopardies'; believing that "there is an imminent danger to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents."
The Health Department's inspectors found one resident with 17 pressure ulcers who was not receiving appropriate treatment ordered by a physician.
Other examples of nursing home abuse at the Center:
- Some of the residents were not being turned or cleaned
- Some of the residents were not always fed (Some had severe weight loss)
- Some residents had not received assistance to eat properly
- No one to answer residents' call lights
- Nursing home staff members were not trained appropriately
- Two patients had wandered from the facility before being found blocks away
- Nursing home employees were not following doctor's orders to care for medical problems
