Motion Picture & Television Fund fined over patient’s death
State regulators have fined the Motion Picture & Television Fund $80,000 for failing to prevent the death of a patient at its nursing home. An investigation by the California Department of Public Health found that the skilled nursing facility “failed to ensure an environment free of accident hazards with adequate supervision, leading to the death of a patient,” according to a statement released by the agency Wednesday.
The investigation stemmed from the October 2010 fatality of Carrie Delay, a 90-year-old resident of the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s nursing home who died after falling down a stairwell at the Woodland Hills facility.
Delay’s family last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging the nursing staff had failed to properly monitor Delay, a wheelchair-bound patient suffering fromAlzheimer’s disease.
-- Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times