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Nursing Home Fined Over Oxycontin Death

Added March 16th, 2006

A nursing home in Edwardsville has been fined $50,000 after an elderly patient died after she was treated with Oxycontin. The 86-year-old woman was found dead in August last year. She had been given a dose of Oxycontin, a powerful opium-based painkiller. However, she had already been administered a dose of the painkiller four hours earlier at a hospital emergency room.

It was found that the woman had died from acute toxicity after being given the Oxycontin. However, the nursing home in question, Rosewood Care Center, is denying responsibility and is appealing against the fine. A spokesman for the home stated: "We are vigorously denying the allegations. We don't think we have any culpability here."

The woman who suffered from a range of illnesses including dementia, arthritis, hypertension, and coronary disease, had been taken to the hospital emergency room on August 26th according to the Department of Health. After being given Oxycontin, a doctor instructed that further doses be administered every 12 hours.

However, upon her return to the nursing home, the woman was given her next dose just four hours after her hospital dose.

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