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The nursing home in Campbell Hall, New York was cited for medication errors, among other things.

Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center received 60 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on June 11, 2021. The facility has also been the subject of fines totaling $18,000 since 2011. The Campbell Hall nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 15 inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the following:

1. The nursing home did not adequately protect residents from abuse or neglect. Section 483.12 of the Federal Code ensure nursing home residents “the right to be free from abuse, neglect, misappropriation of resident property, and exploitation.” A March 2021 citation found that Campbell Hall Rehabilitation Center failed to ensure such. The citation states specifically that it failed to prevent neglect in an instance where a resident’s “bilateral heel wound dressings were not changed in the time frame specified in the Medical Doctor’s (MD’s) orders.” The citation goes on to describe documentation that the resident “required extensive two-person assistance with bed mobility and transfer” and “extensive one-person assistance with dressing and toilet use.” The resident’s physician’s orders required that bilateral heel booties be “applied at all times” and that the resident’s wound dressings be changed in a certain manner. According to the citation, it was not changed between 7am and 3pm on a certain day, with a Licensed Practical Nurse stating in an interview that she had failed to change the resident’s wound dressing during the specified time frame. That LPN later refused to change the resident’s dressing when directed by a superior, according to the citation, and her termination at the facility was subsequently terminated.