Published on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By LORA HINES
The Hemet nursing home owned by Valley Health System has been fined $100,000 and issued a AA citation after a patient died two days after suffering a blow to her head.
The fine and citation issued to Hemet Valley Healthcare Center are the most severe that investigators with the California Department of Public Health could issue to a nursing home.
It is at least the second AA citation and fine to be issued to a Riverside County nursing home this year. In March, inspectors cited and fined The Springs at the Carlotta in Palm Desert after a patient died of an infection from a perforated colon.
An AA citation is issued when the inspector can show that the nursing home's action or inaction was a direct cause of a patient's death. In response, the nursing home is required to come up with a plan of correction showing how it's going to prevent something like this from happening again. Then, the department has to accept it
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