Importance of call lights
Northwest Arkansas Times had an article about a resident who died only 6 days after getting admitted to a nursing home. She was only 63 years old. Why did they agree to accept her if they couldn't take care of her?
Donna Fay Snow dislodged her catheter line, entered the bathroom and fell. She bled to death while lying on the bathroom floor before she was found at 5: 35 a. m. Many times the resident needs to go to the bathroom and hits the call light/bell but gets no response so they try to go to the bathroom without assistance. In this case, the call light was not operating properly.
"It appears that the cord to her nursing call light was missing," the lawsuit states.
Snow had a port placement for dialysis in her upper left jugular vein that she was prone to pick, according to the complaint. The nursing home and its staff knew about Snow's medical condition and should have taken steps to care for her needs, the lawsuit alleges.
