The owner-operator of a Thomasville nursing home has paid a federal civil penalty of $126,594 as part of ending a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services investigation into the facility.
History of neglect related to staffing shortages at Pine Ridge has been well documented. The most recent report about ignoring an emergency plan makes things worse.
First responders told investigators that a long-term care center in Thomasville smelled "horrible" of "stool and urine" when they arrived Jan. 16. They also reported there was feces on the
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A North Carolina nursing home put its residents in “immediate jeopardy” when it failed to enact an emergency plan, leaving just three people to take care of 98 residents during a January storm, according to a state report released Monday.