The elderly patient resided in a nursing home for almost a year before she died at the hospital.
The elderly patient resided in a nursing home for almost a year before she died at the hospital. She had been hospital-ized for six days, with admitting diagnoses of gram nega-tive septicemia, gram negative sepsis, and acute myeloid leukemia. Also, discovered on admission to the hospital was a necrotic Stage III pressure ulcer on her coccyx, which was nowhere documented in the clinical records from the nursing home. A review of the nursing progress notes […]