Hidden Camera Leads to More Arrests for Nursing Home Neglect
Another four workers at the Medford Multicare Center for Living were charged with falsifying records and mistreating patients. These are the latest nursing home neglect-related arrests since the New York Attorney General’s Office began using surveillance cameras in nursing homes throughout the state to monitor for incidents of nursing home abuse and neglect.
The workers are licensed nurses Janet Coleman and Kim Purdum and certified nursing aides Marie Pierre and Paulette George. At their arraignment, all four nursing home workers pleaded not guilty.
Video surveillance footage shows Coleman failing to treat a resident’s ears for chafing and failing to clean his gastronomy tube. Pierre is seen failing to turn the same patient every two hours or change his underwear.
George is accused of only giving a resident baths in beds but failing to give him showers. Purdum did not follow doctor orders to give another resident daily blood tests to monitor doses of Coumadin. The patient began bleeding internally and was transported to a hospital.
These are not the first arrests in connection with the Medford Multicare Center for Living based on surveillance footage. Earlier this month, licensed nurses Rima Chaudhry and Toni Miller and certified nursing assistants Betty Cheslak and Jacqueline Francis faced similar charges for incidents involving neglect and the falsifying of medical records to conceal the neglect.
Nursing Home Neglect
Neglect of a nursing home resident can lead to serious injuries. Failure to regularly turn a patient can result in bedsores, while neglecting to administer tests can seriously compromise a patient’s health. Patients have also been known to break a hip or another body part because the proper safety measures were not used to transfer a patient from his or her bed to a wheelchair.
4 workers at Medford nursing home charged with mistreating patients, Newsday.com, October 31, 2008
Four Caught On Tape In Nursing Home Neglect, North County Gazette, October 7, 2008
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