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September 3, 2008
Death of Nursing Home Facility's "Number One High Risk for Choking" Prompts Fine
Crestwood Manor, a Vallejo, California skilled nursing home has been slapped with a AA citation, the most serious of citations and one that carries a $100,000 fine, for an October 2007 resident death. The resident, wheelchairbound and suffering from dementia, had no teeth and had a history of stuffing food into his mouth. In fact, the resident was known as the facility's "number one high risk for choking". It is unclear how the resident, who was on a pureed diet, obtained the cinnamon roll, which was contained in a vending machine.
Crestwood Manor had another AA citation in 2004.
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