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Nursing home resident recovers from overdose
LTC Liability Monitor, December 11, 2006
A Grand Rapids nursing home resident overdosed from too many drugs in dangerous combinations given to her by staff, reported WOODTV in Grand Rapids, MI. The resident recovered from the overdose because her legal guardian, a clergyman, requested she be transferred to a local hospital the night staff alerted him of her pending death. Staff told the pastor the resident was expected to die that night of lung cancer. A trip to the hospital revealed the resident actually suffered a drug overdose. The pastor's allegations that nursing home staff failed to monitor the resident were substantiated. The nursing home must now respond to the violations with a plan or correction or fight it, according to WOODTV.
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