02 August 2018

Steven Fuller (Steven Baines); Teddie J. Randall; Daniel K. Lak


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New Patients Barred at Knoxville Nursing Home


State officials have halted admissions at one of the biggest nursing homes in Knoxville after it was discovered that a bedridden dementia patient fractured both her knees in a fall but did not see a doctor and was left in agony for nine days.

The patient fractured her knees while falling out of bed in front of a nurse assistant, then complained of "intense pain," state records show. However, it took the nursing home five days to perform an x-ray, then another four days to have her be seen by a doctor.

The doctor then sent her for knee surgery at a hospital, where she died a month later.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2018/07/30/knoxville-elder-abuse-nursing-home-westmoreland/866232002/

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