Nursing Home Fined After Patient Given Wrong Medications: Report

WATERFORD, CT — Several nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health for violations that endangered or injured residents including New London Sub-Acute and Nursing in Waterford, according to reporting by the Connecticut Post's Connecticut Health I-Team.

The report notes that in October of 2019, a resident at the New London Sub-Acute and Nursing facility was found unresponsive after an licensed practical nurse mistakenly gave the person their roommates' medications: "sedative Ativan, antidepressant Lexapro, and antipsychotic Clozapine," according to the reporting citing the state Department of Public Health.

The patient was taken to the hospital where they needed to be intubated. After more than a week in the hospital the person was moved to a long-term care facility.

The nurse was fired and New London Sub-Acute and Nursing was fined $6,960.