Princeton Health: Unnecessary Psychotropic Meds - NM
The resident, identified in inspection records only as R #10, received Haldol 5 mg intramuscularly at least three times between August 20 and September 9, 2025, at Princeton Health & Rehabilitation. On August 20, staff gave him the injection when he started screaming and acting upset. Later that evening, he walked to the nurse's station looking for his dog.
On August 24, he grabbed a spray bottle of chemicals from a housekeeping cart and tried to spray another resident with it. A hall monitor took the bottle away. R #10 became furious, grabbed the hall monitor's forearm, and tried to hit him. Staff redirected him to his room, where he said the man hated him and wanted to hurt him. He received another Haldol injection five minutes later.
On September 9, he was walking unsteadily in the hallway, throwing food and drinks at nursing assistants and trying to hit them. A nurse practitioner ordered Haldol again. It was injected into his upper buttock.
The unit manager for Floor 200 told inspectors her expectation was clear: staff should attempt other interventions before reaching for the medication. If those didn't work, they should leave him alone for five minutes and try again. "The medication should not be the first choice," she said.
The physician assistant who treated R #10 said he first saw the resident because of homicidal threats. He was not concerned R #10 would actually harm anyone, he told inspectors, because the resident had no means to do so. He said he ordered Haldol for severe agitation, and that staff could interpret what rose to that level.
The social services assistant described R #10 as a man who had moments of being quiet and content. His anger, she said, came from being at the facility. When he made statements about killing everyone, she believed he simply wanted to be let out.
He was, by the unit manager's own account, fairly new to the place. And he did not want to be there.
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Princeton Health & Rehabilitation in Albuquerque, NM was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 17, 2025.
On August 20, staff gave him the injection when he started screaming and acting upset.
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