Health officials order Brockton nursing home to stop accepting new patients
State health officials, citing significant safety concerns, will not allow a Brockton nursing home to accept new patients, according to The Boston Globe.
On July 1, regulators declared the residents at the Braemoor Health Center to be in “immediate jeopardy,” a status imposed by the state when a facility’s actions will likely result in “serious injury, harm, impairment, or death to a resident,” a health department spokesman told the Globe.
According to the Globe, the health department sent a letter to the nursing home stating regulators found serious problems during an inspection of the facility on July 1, including a failure to “ensure that staff was appropriately trained and demonstrated competency to respond to residents in cardiac or respiratory arrest.”
State officials are recommending the nursing home be terminated from Medicaid and Medicare if conditions are not immediately improved by July 24.
It is not the first time Braemoor has been disciplined, according to the Globe.
Read the full Globe report here.
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