Wallingford Nursing Home Fined By State: Report

WALLINGFORD, CT — Masonicare Health Center in Wallingford was one of four nursing homes recently fined by the state Department of Public Health for various lapses of care, according to the Connecticut Health I-Team.

Cara Rosner of the Connecticut Health I-Team reports Masonicare was fined $1,635 in connection to a Feb. 2, 2016 incident in which a resident’s catheter tube became dislodged while being transported to the bathroom by staff. (To sign up for Wallingford breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

A new catheter was inserted at a hospital but pieces of the old one remained in the resident and surgery was required to remove the remaining pieces, Rosner reports.

Read more, including Masonicare’s response to the fine and to see the other nursing homes fined, at the Connecticut Health I-Team website here.

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