A nursing home in Oakmont has been punished by the state and given a provisional license after an 89-year-old woman committed suicide by jumping out her third-story window, reports the post-gazette website. Her son is left full of anguish as to what exactly happened to his mother who had been admitted to the facility in July with heart problems, glaucoma, dementia, and depression. State officials downgraded the Presbyterian Senior Care nursing home known as the Willows nursing home to a provisional license until March 28th because they failed to do enough to stop the death of the 89-year-old woman.
State Inspectors reported finding notes in the facility’s records that stated the woman had “attempted to exit the facility via the stairs in a wheelchair and had expressed a desire to jump out the window.” Where the nursing home failed is that the staff did not inform a physician responsible for her care and did not “develop measures to protect the resident and to prevent injuries [...]
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