The county paid more than $67,000 in state and federal fines earlier this year after a state agency cited the Edgemoor skilled nursing facility for a resident’s startling interaction with a nursing assistant and taking days to report the incident.
A state Department of Public Health probe found that the officials failed to properly investigate and to within 24 hours report to the agency a certified nursing assistant’s “threatening and aggressive posturing” when a quadriplegic patient asked him for help in January. Edgemoor kept the now-former staffer on the job caring for more than five dozen other patients two days after the incident before beginning its own review of the encounter, according to the investigation.
The state investigation also found that other Edgemoor staffers had concerns about the nursing assistant’s attitude and interactions with other employees before the incident…