The pukes think the nursing home fire in Anderson is Claire's fault

[proud2BlibKansan]

One of the attacks most frequently launched at Claire McCaskill during her last few elections revolved around her promise to audit and punish nursing homes that were found to be abusive or harmful toward their patients. Claire promised she would do just that during her run for state auditor, and defended that assertion in her previous senate campaign.

Earlier this week, a nursing home in Anderson, MO, burned to the ground. In the process, ten residents were killed along with dozens of others injured. Although, the fire itself is an extremely disturbing occurrence, more troubling is the fact that the home had a history of abuse and neglect.

Since 2003, the home has been charged multiple times with allegations such as unclean situations, which led to a pervasive ‘urine-odor,’ not conducting criminal background checks on employees, unshielded light fixtures, and yes, you guessed it, fire code violations.

Despite all this, the home has never, not once, been sanctioned. They still have state funding and were allowed to operate status quo, despite the multiple infractions. Sounds like Claire dropped the ball on this one.

To make the situation even worse, the power behind the housing company that oversaw the Anderson home was a convicted felon. Robert J. Dupont was sentenced to prison time for medicare fraud. He was able to get around the law that blocks felons from running residential care facilities, however, by listing his wife as the operating officer. It sounds ridiculous that a felon convicted of cheating the system was allowed to stay in control of the company, yet it all slid by.

Unfortunately, it’s too late to do anything now. The damage has certainly been done. In 2003, at the first sight of neglect and abuse, the nursing home should’ve been cited and state funding should’ve been pulled. Maybe if that had happened, they would’ve fixed the multiple fire violations that led to yesterday’s deadly fire.

http://thesource.typepad.com/thesource/2006/11/a_promise_not_k.html

[xmas74]

1. This is the first I'd heard of the blame game.

I'm not surprised in the least bit.