Abuse of Nursing Home Patient Does Not Prompt Firing at Life Care at Lofland
A two month employee at Life Care at Lofland in Seaford, Delaware, has been suspended without pay and faces reckless endangerment and offensive touching charges for his actions on August 17, 2008. He currently remains free on bond.
Police were called to the facility after nursing home employees witnessed the employee twice placing a pillow over a resident's face while performing personal care services in an effort to quiet the patient. Fortunately, the victim appears to have suffered no ill-effects from the incident.
