Report: Nurse talked of overdosing patients
By Karen Jordan
Thursday, September 25, 2008
A state investigation reveals six mysterious deaths at a suburban nursing home may not have been the work of an angel of death.
Marty Himebaugh was charged last April in connection with four deaths at the home in Woodstock. Now, the state report claims those deaths may not have been mercy killings. Rather, the report indicates the nursing home residents were killed because they were just difficult to deal with.
The conclusions of this report are shocking, that for six months, a nurse talked openly of sedating or giving overdoses of drugs to patients who were either difficult to handle or who had lived long enough.
The investigative report by the Illinois Department of Public Health was completed in April. The 130-page document delves into the series of suspicious deaths that took place at the Woodstock Residence Nursing Home two years ago.
SOURCE: Chicago ABC news
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