State regulators have reduced the fine imposed against a Des Moines care facility after mistakenly tripling the penalty due to a previous regulatory violation.
The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing has cited Scottish Rite Park Health Care Center, a Des Moines nursing home located on Woodland Avenue, for failing to safely transfer a resident into her bed while using a mechanical lift.
According to the state inspectors, that failure resulted in “severe harm” to the resident, who on April 29 fell from the lift “and sustained life-threatening injuries,” including a subdermal hemorrhage, which is a surface-brain bleed; a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is an inner-brain bleed; a broken neck bone; a broken collarbone; and a broken thigh bone in one leg…