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Nursing home guilty of breaching care regulations in patient death case
A private nursing home in Waterford has been found guilty of breaching care regulations in case concerning a patient who died after ingesting a latex glove.
A PRIVATE NURSING home in Waterford has been found guilty of breaching care regulations over a case concerning a patient who died after ingesting a latex glove.
RTÉ news reports that James Griffin, 67, died in November 2008 after the glove was found in his airway.
Care assistants at the Mowlam nursing home at Ballinakill in Waterford city found Griffin on the floor and unable to breathe. They discovered the latex glove in his airway and removed it, and he was then brought to nearby Waterford Regional Hospital.
However, Griffin did not recover from the incident and passed away at the hospital five days later.
Subsequently, the HSE took a case against the home, under Section 5 (a) of the Nursing Home Care and Welfare Regulations 1993 and Section 6 (3) (a) of the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990.
This morning, Judge David Kennedy found that Mowlam had breached care regulations and imposed a fine of €750. Kennedy said that the home did not take adequate care of Griffin, who was suffering from advanced dementia.
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