Nursing Home Patients Infested With Maggots

Two residents of Michigan nursing homes were found to have maggot infestations. Ann Arbor.com reports maggots were found in one woman's catheter and another's throat. Both cases were discussed in a press release about the severity of nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect patients face in some Michigan facilities.

Employees found maggots in and around a patient's catheter. The nurse in charge was instructed by the home's corporate staff to document the discovery as debridement or dead tissue, rather than as maggot infestation. In another home in a different county, emergency personnel suctioning a woman's airway found maggots obstructing it.

Even if this is not normal as Mike Pemble of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs points out, the fact that any patient suffered from maggot infestation is unacceptable. No one should suffer the indignities of such extreme nursing home neglect. Furthermore, companies that run nursing homes must be held responsible for their actions. Instructing employees to intentionally misdocument events should never be an acceptable practice. A nursing home abuse lawyer can help bring the truth to light and hold employees acountable for their mistreatment of patients.