Articles Tagged: Nursing homes

After two unexpected resident deaths, a Mount Pleasant nursing home has been added to a federal list of the nation’s worst care facilities.

Since Jan. 1, at least eight Iowa nursing homes have been cited for violations related to resident abuse.

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Marvin “Pete” Jacobs, 87, died Feb. 19 while sitting in his room at the Fonda Specialty Care facility in Pocahontas County. Jacobs had undergone a tracheostomy, and because his airway tended to become clogged, the staff kept a suctioning machine by his bedside.

Video visits are an increasingly common way for residents of small-town nursing homes to receive mental health care.

The state agency that oversees Iowa’s nursing homes has again failed to impose the legally mandated fines against a repeat-offender care facility.

Iowa nurses have been sanctioned recently for being drunk at work, using cocaine, sleeping on the job and assaulting a patient.

A western Iowa care facility for people with disabilities has been fined $10,000 for contributing to the death of a resident.

An Iowa nursing home administrator fired last year after being accused of stealing patient medications and being under the influence of drugs at work is facing no charges from the licensing board that oversees her profession.

Elgin woman accused of theft agreed to settlement but says board would not disclose alleged food purchases with the facility’s credit.

Six Iowa care facilities have been placed in receivership and are shutting their doors after the owner informed state officials they could no longer continue operations.

In Iowa, 15 facilities closed in 2022, 13 of them in rural areas

State inspectors say a female resident of Sigourney’s Windsor Place Senior Living Campus was left in a vegetative state in November after the facility’s administrator ignored the staff’s concerns about the woman’s worsening condition and her requests to be taken to a hospital.

Two workers who witnessed the incident did not immediately report it, but first went to another meeting and then to lunch.

State inspectors say the abuse involved a worker at Heritage Specialty Care who allegedly took $1,625 from a resident with a spinal cord injury and later called him names.