Kentucky Nursing Home Slapped With Serious Citation
Staff members at Bluegrass Care and Rehabilitation Center in Lexington, Kentucky used their personal mobile telephones to "inappropriately photograph and make audio recordings" of residents without their knowledge. The employees then attached songs with sexual lyrics to the photographs and then circulated them to other facility employees. This abuse affected seven nursing home residents.
After an investigation by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services the facility was hit with a Type A citation on April 10, 2009, the most serious citation available. According to the citation, "there was no evidence that the facility had identified or trained staff that using residents' pictures and/or recordings of a sexually exploitative nature were a form of abuse. Interviews with facility staff, including aides, licensed staff, and housekeepers, revealed that this was a usual event that was not recognized or identified as abuse; therefore staff failed to report the abuse to their supervisors."
Several nursing home staff members were dismissed and the facility has been fined $6,550 per day because the residents were found to be in immediate jeopardy.
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