Meriden Nursing Home Fined After Resident Beaten: Report

MERIDEN, CT — A Meriden nursing home was recently fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection to an incident last summer in which a resident was beaten by another resident, according to the Connecticut Health I-Team.

Cara Rosner of the Connecticut Health I-Team reports The Curtis Home St. Elizabeth Center in Meriden was fined $3,000 for staff failing to properly help the resident, who was found in “a pool of blood all over” after being struck repeatedly on the head with a wheelchair foot pedal by another resident.

The resident suffered nose fractures and numerous head lacerations as a result of the attack, according to the I-Team.

Read more details, and other nursing homes in the state recently fined by the DPH, at the Connecticut Health I-Team website here.

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