Former Employees Voice Concerns Over Care at Pennsylvania Nursing Home
Former staff members of Fox Subacute, a nursing home specializing in ventilator patient care in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, contacted CBS 21 News voicing serious concerns about the safety and welfare of residents of the facility.
The former employees even had photographs to prove their allegations. The photographs depicted biohazard bags on the floor in a trash-packed utility room and dirty toilets and floors. The former employees also filed an OSHA complaint.
The facility has approximately 21 residents, but has capacity for 60. Back in August 2009, the Pennsylvania Health Department found the facility to be noncompliant with respect to handling of records and residents not getting snacks on time. The Health Department report also found that food was improperly stored and the medication cart was improperly stored in the hallway.
CBS 21 News talked to the facility Administrator, Joseph Murray. Murray says the allegations of the former employees are unfounded and that the employees did not "get along" with their supervisors, saying, "Everybody has disgruntled employees. I don't know exactly what the issues are with those people."
Murray says that the residents' food is brought in from Harrisburg Hospital and he is requesting permission from the Health Department to store the locked medication carts in the hallways due to limited room in the one year-old facility. Murray allowed CBS 21 News to take a limited tour of the facility, showing the reporter the hallways, kitchen area, and TV room, which appeared clean.
