Healthcare Compliance Perspective:
An effective Compliance and Ethics Program to a residents on any given day; however, it will represent a good-faith effort to do the right thing and will help mitigate financial consequences for the nursing facility.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – The state of California says it has slapped a Bakersfield nursing facility with the most severe penalty it can after the death of a patient–$100,000.
The state found that the 80-year-old man was repositioned in bed by a staff member, but the guardrail was not put into place afterward. This allowed the man to fall out of bed and he suffered a cervical spine fracture (broken neck). The man died eight days later.
