Glastonbury Care Center Fined By State

GLASTONBURY, CT - A local care facility has been fined by the state in connection with a resident who fell and broke bones and another that left the facility, according to a report by the Connecticut Health I-Team's Kate Farrish.

On May 4, Salmon Brook Center in Glastonbury, which is owned by Genesis Health Care, was fined $1,840 in connection with a resident who fell out of a wheelchair on Dec. 1 and broke a hip after a nurse’s aide left the person at a nurse’s station, according to the report.

Another nurse’s aide did not recall being asked to watch the resident and had gone to assist another resident when the first one fell, the citation said.

The director of nursing said the staff should have been supervising the resident at all times, the citation said.

The home was also cited in connection with a resident with dementia who was able to leave the home on July 4. A video showed a dietary aide had let the resident through a door into a service hallway, where the resident was left alone and got out to a parking lot, the citation said. The home then re-trained the staff on not allowing residents to go into a service hallway unless accompanied by a staff member, according to the report.

See the full I-Team report here.