A second round of arrests involving four new workers at The Medford Multicare Center for Living, in Medford, New York were charged yesterday with mistreating patients and falsifying records. According to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office, one resident of the Medford Multicare Center for Living was not showered for a month; an 84-year-old female resident was rushed to the hospital because a nurse had failed to order routine blood tests; and an 84-year-old man was not turned to prevent sores.
As mentioned in a recent blog, Cuomo has implemented video cameras in some NY nursing homes and two of the four workers were caught using the hidden cameras. The employees are charged with multiple counts of endangering the welfare of disabled persons and falsifying records. They are identified as Janet Coleman, 49, of Moriches, and Kim Purdum, 36, of Sound Beach, both licensed practical nurses, and Marie Pierre, 35, of Elmont, and Paulette George, 53, of Sayville, both certified nursing aides.
Coleman and Pierre were charged through evidence obtained by video surveillance. Coleman did not clean a patient’s gastrotomy tube or treat his ears for chafing from oxygen tubes, officials said, and Pierre failed to turn him every two hours or change his briefs when needed. George, arrested in a probe stemming from a family’s complaint, was responsible for showering a resident twice a week, but instead gave him bed baths for a month, officials said. Purdum, while completing physician’s orders for a patient with chronic pulmonary disease, failed to include a doctor’s order for daily blood tests to monitor the dosage of the blood-thinning medication Coumadin. Later, after the patient had suffered internal bleeding and was taken to a hospital, she changed records to include the order, officials said.
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