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08 Apr 2007 10:30:18 AM |
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Dead rat found in senior’s mouth, suit alleges |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17988869/
Dead rat found in senior’s mouth, suit alleges
Calif. nursing home that increased beds while cutting staff denies
allegation
Updated: 8:59 p.m. ET April 6, 2007
SANTA ANA, Calif. - {AP} Staffing was so inadequate at a California
senior center that a rat crawled into an Alzheimer's patient's mouth and
died there before staff noticed, a lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday on behalf of 90-year-old Sigmund Bock,
alleges that administrators at the Paragon Gardens Assisted Living and
Memory Care Community in Mission Viejo overbooked their facility to
receive corporate bonuses, but cut back on staff to increase profits.
"The facility so literally ignored the needs of their residents ... as
to allow vermin in the form of a rat to become lodged in the mouth of
Sigmund Bock and die therein," the lawsuit alleges.
Melody Chatelle, a spokeswoman for Sunwest Management Inc., the
Oregon-based company that operates Paragon, denied the allegations.
"We take care of our residents, and find this negative publicity to be a
disheartening affront to our professional caregivers and most especially
to our residents and their loved ones," she said.
Chatelle said that Bock was found holding a glue trap that had been
placed in his room by a pest control company to catch a single field
mouse. She said the dead field mouse was inside the trap when Bock
picked it up.
Bock's attorney, Stephen Garcia, challenged that account. He said two
traps were placed in Bock's room and both were laced with poison, not
glue.
ER report said rat was in mouth
He said Paragon records show a staff person noticed Bock "playing with a
rat in his room and eating candy ... with the rat" on the morning of
March 18. A short time later, Garcia said, paramedics called to the
scene noted "possible ingestion of rat poison" in their report and an
emergency room file says that Bock was "found in room in care facility
with dead rat in mouth."
Bock is now being treated at another facility, Garcia said. The lawsuit
seeks unspecified punitive damages and attorney and court fees.
The lawsuit is the latest in a string of troubles for Paragon Gardens.
Last year, the state moved to revoke Paragon Gardens' license after a
71-year-old dementia patient wandered from the facility and was never
found. The state Department of Social Services also claimed six clients
were injured from improper care, according to spokesman Michael Weston.
The company has appealed.
The state is also investigating Bock's case after receiving an anonymous
report on March 23, Weston said.
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| Title: Re: Dead rat found in senior’s mouth, suit alleges |
08 Apr 2007 06:54:13 PM |
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In article <0i2i13p5mt6e7v5hc1eg9kahnv3v3lblou@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17988869/
Dead rat found in senior’s mouth, suit alleges
Calif. nursing home that increased beds while cutting staff denies
allegation
That's gross. That place should be closed and the owners and staff put
in jail.
Updated: 8:59 p.m. ET April 6, 2007
SANTA ANA, Calif. - {AP} Staffing was so inadequate at a California
senior center that a rat crawled into an Alzheimer's patient's mouth and
died there before staff noticed, a lawsuit claims.
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"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."
- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.
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