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Facility fined $80K in dehydration death
LTC Liability Monitor, January 20, 2005
Health department inspectors fined a Vallejo, CA, nursing home $80,000 in connection with the dehydration death of a resident last year, the Vallejo [CA] Times-Herald reported. The facility was also given the most extreme citation-AA. Rexford Rusk, a 45-year-old quadriplegic man was transferred from Evergreen Healthcare Center to a local hospital in mid-January of 2004-where, despite 30 hours of hydration treatment, he died of severe dehydration. Inspectors allege nurses did not call Rusk's physician or send him to the hospital when his condition deteriorated until a member of his family insisted. An unlicensed nurse admitted she witheld Rusk's antibiotic treatment two days before his death. Evergreen has appealed the fines and citation in court, according to the Times-Herald.
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