Christmas morning fire tests nursing home response
Hospital Safety Connection, January 13, 2005
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A fire in the heating unit of a resident's room at a Quakertown, PA, nursing home last week tested the facilities response, the Allentown Morning Call reported.
Early Saturday morning the fire broke out in a resident's room. Staff began moving the wing's 63 residents to the center's main dining hall and activity room.
The fire department quickly put out the blaze.
Five staff members suffered from smoke inhalation and were taken to a nearby hospital.
The state Health Department's Division of Nursing Care Facilities inspected the damage at the nursing home on Saturday afternoon.
"We found that they are doing what they should be doing,' spokeswoman Jessica Seiders told the Call. "They've been doing their monthly safety checks and following protocol. We checked building safety and it was fine and we'll check back again."
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