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"An Orange County assisted-living facility where an 82-year-old woman died after employees failed to give her her heart medicine, gave up its fight Monday to save its state license.
Instead, Emeritus at Crossing Pointe will become a housing complex for elderly people who can live independently.
The state has worked for most of the past year to take the facility's license. It has been banned from admitting new patients since September because of a wide variety of health and safety problems cited by the state Agency for Health Care Administration."
Emeritus at Crossing Pointe: Orange County assisted living facility gives up license - OrlandoSentinel.com
Seeded on Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:16 PM EDT
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I am commenting as I post on the 'Corporateization of medicine [parts of it in any case] there is too much to literally track. Join me for a few minutes.
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#1 - Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:18 PM EDTThe sky is not falling, but I have seen so many things, having worked in the field many years ago and now with volunteer work and my friends who need a hand once in a while to know that it complicated the truth.
I've seeded an article today which I did send to this column because this place who was killing people at a pretty good pace is, indeed a corporate giant: it's Seattle, WA based Emeritus Properties NGH LLC. They have generously decided to move the 53 survivors of this facility to another of the nearly 1 dozen facilities it owns in the area. As a resident here I have a serious problem with a state that takes a year to accomplish closing a pit like this.
This is from my comment on the other post, @ nyghtshayde's column. His seeded piece "Who Tells The Dead Patient Stories Now?" is another remarkable dissertation on medicine and medical services in this country. It is more than worth reading.
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