Arizona board to review nursing home violation after Republic report

Arizona board to review nursing home violation after Republic report

[ad_1]

The state regulatory board that oversees nursing home administrators will consider investigating leadership at a Prescott facility that required employees to work while sick with COVID-19. 

The decision to review the case came after The Arizona Republic in December reported on the nursing home’s safety violations, as part of a months-long investigation. 

State health inspectors had discovered in July that managers at Granite Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center required staffers to work despite positive COVID-19 tests and doctors’ orders to isolate. 

Some staffers were so ill that it was painful to breathe, or that they were “sweating and weak,” but had to stay on shift, inspectors found. 

One employee texted the staffing coordinator, the administrator and the director of nursing about having a headache, body aches, sore throat and chills. No one responded. The next day, the employee logged a fever on the facility’s health screening. Still, management required working a full shift, according to the inspection report.



[ad_2]
Source link