Patient's Smoking Leads to Nursing Home Fine
It is well known the flammable oxygen equipment and smoking do not mix. However, a resident at Forbes Road Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania recently was allowed outside to smoke while wearing a nasal oxygen cannula. State inspectors witnessed this event and slapped the nursing home with an "immediate jeopardy" citation, which is the most serious citation it can give a nursing home. The Department of Health has assessed a $22,000 fine for that violation and the violation that the facility failed to properly assess whether smoking residents require supervision. As an additional penalty, the facility could not admit any new residents for two days and has also been placed on provisional license for six months.
