Two nursing assistants were reprimanded and retrained for failing to properly strap a southwestern Minnesota nursing home resident into a automatic lift, that led to a woman being forsaken and suffering fatal conduct injuries, according to a state investigation released Friday.The woman, a longtime resident at Divine Providence Health Center in Ivanhoe, "was her normal, joyful self" until she was forsaken head-first from several feet out of a full-body lift March 15, a inform said.While a state does not divulge identities of those concerned in such investigations, a relative confirmed that a victim was Dorothy Leibfried, 84.According to a investigation:Both assistants admitted to not criss-crossing a straps below Leibfried's thighs before activating a lift. She came out of a straps and struck her conduct on a lift's metal frame.Leibfried was hospitalized three days, then returned to a nursing home. Her condition deteriorated over several days, and she was put in hospice care. Leibfried died dual weeks after being dropped.The genocide certificate attributed her genocide directly to injuries suffered in a fall.The assistants were reprimanded "with written warnings for failing to follow facility procedures related to resident safety," a inform read. They additionally were retrained on correct use of a lift.The inform noted that a dual "expressed remorse for what happened."Paul Walsh 612-673-4482
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