Four Nursing Homes Fined, One for Wrongly Administering Opiates

Four Nursing Homes Fined, One For Wrongly Administering Opiates
DPH also fined the Rosegarden Health & Rehabilitation Center of Waterbury $ 1,860 on July 22, in connection with the hospitalization of a resident whose sodium levels were high. An investigation concluded that the resident had been given the wrong …
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Cook County Jail's inmate population rising
Some mentally ill inmates are kept longer than necessary because no beds are available in state treatment centers when a judge finds them unfit to stand trial, public defenders and others involved in the cases said. Although Gov. Pat Quinn has pledged …
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FOOTBALL: Dax McGregor, one year later
He was given a shot of a drug called vasopressin “given to raise the blood pressure while his lungs were collapsing,” Shannon said. It also left a large oval burn on his right upper arm. His life remained in danger as doctors scrambled to insert a tube …
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