DALLAS: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.
But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:
144. A skilled nursing home’s owners have been fined after a patient fell from a sling. The owner admitted failing to carry out safety checks on patient slings.
It also admitted failing to comply with an improvement notice asking it to check hot and cold water systems, ensuring residents and staff weren’t at risk of contracting Legionella bacteria.
It was fined for each offence.