Middletown Nursing Home Fined After Resident Chews Finger to Bone: Report

MIDDLETOWN, CT — Apple Rehabilitation of Middletown was one of two nursing homes fined by the state Department of Public Health for incidents in which residents were injured and suffered complications after doctors’ orders weren’t followed, according to the Connecticut Health I-Team.

Cara Rosner of the Connecticut Health I-Team reports Apple Rehabilitation was fined $1,635 for an incident last December in which a resident chewed an index finger until bone was exposed.

The doctor had directed that the patient’s right-hand be covered with a sock because the resident had osteoporosis and dementia and a known habit of chewing the right index finger, Rosner reports.

Read more details, and see the other nursing home that was fined, at the Connecticut Health I-Team website here.

Image via state Department of Public Health

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