Nursing Home Abuse & Wrongful Termination "Double-Whammy"
The Tulsa World reported this week a Mannford woman is suing for wrongful termination after she reported nursing home abuse and neglect of facility's residents.
Some of the disturbing parts of the article:
Some of the disturbing parts of the article:
"Mrs. Harris observed a male resident who had been left in his own waste for so many hours that he had feces caked on to his leg from his hip to below his knee, and had wet himself at least one time," the petition said.Note that Mrs. Harris was only an employee of the nursing home for 3 months!
[S]he saw the man sitting in his waste and reported it to her supervisor, the head nurse and two nurse's aides. Her supervisor sprayed deodorant in the man's room to cover the smell. The aides said they would leave him for the next shift.
"Two and a half hours later, he was still sitting in his own waste," Harris said. "He couldn't say nothing. I would always talk to him. He would just light up when I went to clean his room. It's heartbreaking when you see a resident not being taken care of."
[A]n elderly woman paralyzed from the waist down was left in her own waste, Harris said. She rolled out of the bed and into the hallway to get someone to change her soiled garments and the nurses "just laughed at her," Harris said.
Harris reported each instance of neglect or abuse to the facility's staff. But once the staff learned she intended to seek the advice of her husband, Jerry, a retired private investigator known for exposing elder abuse, she was fired, the petition said.
