Wallingford Nursing Home Fined: Report

WALLINGFORD, CT — Masonicare Health Center in Wallingford was recently fined $7,800 by the state Department of Public Health after a resident with dementia fell from an X-ray table to the floor, according to the Connecticut Health I-Team.

Cara Rosner of the Connecticut Health I-Team reports the resident fell last August and suffered a head laceration that required five sutures. The resident wasn’t secured with safety straps because the X-ray technician had said none were available, according to the report.

Safety straps were purchased for the X-ray table after the incident, Rosner reports.

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