At a nursing home in Glendale, a certified nursing assistant was charged with raping a mentally ill patient in her room. After the incident, according to investigators, the victim said she felt scared, sad, wanted to kill herself.
At a facility in Simi Valley, the daughter of one elderly resident told LAist that staff didn t adequately care for her mother, who developed a gruesome bedsore. I could stick my pinky in it, she said. It was down to the bone.
At a nursing home in Compton, a schizophrenic patient with one leg was inappropriately discharged. He went missing, only to turn up two weeks later in a park, unconscious, under his wheelchair. Regulators charged that the facility s lapses presented imminent danger or a substantial probability that if the man hadn t been found, he would have suffered grave harm, even death.