Report: Uncasville Nursing Home Fined Following Patient's Falls

UNCASVILLE, CT — The Connecticut I-Health Team reported that six nursing homes have been fined by the state for violating a resident’s privacy, verbally abusing a resident and for violations that resulted in residents’ injuries.

One of the six is in Uncasville.

Orchard Grove Specialty Care Center in Uncasville was fined $7,800 after a resident with dementia fell several times between Aug. 16, 2018, and June 7, 2019, C-HIT reported. The resident suffered injuries, including an ankle fracture on Aug. 21, 2018, when an aide failed to follow instructions to move the resident with two staffers, rather than one.

In addition, C-HIT reported that the Whitney Center in Hamden was fined $6,120 after a nurse aide used her personal cellphone to take a picture of a resident being transferred to a shower chair with a Hoyer lift last summer, according to a citation issued by the state Department of Public Health. Apple Rehab West Haven was fined $7,440 after two charge nurses witnessed a nurse aide verbally abusing a resident in December of 2018, it was reported. The Laurel Ridge Health Care Center in Ridgefield was fined $6,960 after a resident suffered a subdural hematoma in a fall, C-HIT reported. Harrington Court in Colchester was fined $2,160 after a resident with dementia left the facility twice. And Bridgeport Health Care Center was fined $1 after staff failed to call 911 when a resident died.

Read the full report from C-HIT here.