HOUSTON: 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:
471: A nurse at a skilled nursing home didn’t administer nearly 500 oxycodone pills to six patients on 103 dates, instead stealing the powerful painkiller.
The man working at the nursing home for an outside hiring agency, began removing 5mg oxycodone pills multiple times a day starting Nov. 28 and lasting through mid-June.