Anoka Rehab: Morphine Left Unused as Resident Cried in Pain - MN
For reasons that not one person at Anoka Rehabilitation and Living Center could explain to inspectors, it was never used....
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For reasons that not one person at Anoka Rehabilitation and Living Center could explain to inspectors, it was never used....
Falls in nursing homes are not rare events....
The aide, identified in inspection records as AA C, had known the resident, referred to as R901, for about two years....
The incidents happened within roughly two weeks of each other in late October and early November 2025....
That afternoon, the nursing home administrator confirmed it too....
Neither drug had adequate behavior monitoring documentation behind it....
A single nurse on each shift was responsible for medicating roughly 40 residents....
He had always preferred to keep a beard and mustache....
The wound appeared on October 6, 2025....
The citation carried a finding of minimal harm or potential for actual harm and affected some residents....
The inspectors were there on a complaint....
That's what a state inspector found on the morning of November 5, 2025, at Country Club Retirement Center III, a nursing home with 72 residents on its census....
The allegation surfaced in a grievance filed on August 12, 2025, but it didn't come from the resident herself....
The nurse responsible said it was fine....
When inspectors spoke with her that afternoon, her hair was greasy....
Nurses and aides first noticed something was wrong when nobody called them for the drink carts....
The inspection, triggered by a complaint, resulted in an immediate jeopardy citation, the most serious level of deficiency the federal government issues....
Inspectors reviewed three versions of the facility's assessment document....
Ten days later, she obtained a temporary RN license, but it was issued by Idaho, not Washington....
That moment during a November inspection at Quality Life Services in Chicora turned out to be the second fall for the same resident in less than a month....