Hamden Nursing Home Fined in Connection with Resident's Death

Arden House Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Hamden was one of two nursing facilities fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection with the death of a resident, according to Connecticut Health I-Team.

Kate Farrish of the I-Team reports that Arden House was fined $1,650 on Dec. 15 in connection with the death of a resident who died of bleeding on the brain on Aug. 28.

Farrish reports the following findings from the incident:

The resident, who had dementia, was found on the floor of the home on Aug. 26, but had normal neurological signs, according to records. Throughout that night and into the next morning, the resident refused six times to have his or her neurological signs checked, records show. Later that morning, the resident could not be woken up and was sent to a hospital, where he or she was diagnosed with an acute subdural hematoma, DPH found.

The home found that a licensed practical nurse should have notified a registered nurse that the person was unresponsive, records show.

Arden House was also fined on three other occasions, twice in November and once in October, for incidents in which a resident fell and broke a hip and wasn’t wearing needed “gripper socks”; a resident left the facility without permission; and for failing to wash a resident or change his or her clothes, according to the I-Team report.

Jeanne Moore, a spokesperson for Genesis Healthcare, which owns Arden House, told Farrish that the home worked with DPH to regain compliance with all regulations.

Read the full report at the Connecticut I-Team website here.

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