Wallingford Nursing Home Fined: Report

WALLINGFORD, CT — Masonicare Health Center in Wallingford was recently fined $3,900 by the state Department of Public Health in connection to an incident in which a resident developed a severe pressure ulcer, according to the Connecticut Health I-Team.

Cara Rosner of the Connecticut Health I-Team reports that a pressure-reducing cushion that was recommended for the resident was under-inflated on multiple occasions and documentation failed to show that staff was monitoring its inflation for several months.

A spokesperson told Rosner that Masonicare disagreed with the health department’s findings but would comply with the fine.

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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