1. Physiotherapy also helps prevent bed sores and relieves the pain that comes from staying in one position too long. 2. Another resident had seven bed sores on his scrotum. 3. Finch said the state incorrectly blamed her staff for failing to treat the bed sores. 4. Five months after payments resumed, state surveyors found new problems, including bed sores and malnutrition. 5. He also had bed sores on his ear and lower back. 6. He never turned on the air conditioning, never bathed and was covered with bed sores. 7. Inspectors found emaciated residents with advanced bed sores and a severe shortage of staff, including nurses, DHS inspection records show. 8. Lower staffing leads to more infections, bed sores and other preventable ailments, a researcher will testify in Senate testimony Thursday on an extensive new national survey. 9. One man had a bed sore so deep and infected that his sock had to be cut off, inspection records show. 10. Other residents had bed sores when they were admitted to the nursing home, she said. |