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| | Legal Issues: the Ensign Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Ensign intentionally instructed its staff "
to reword, modify, rewrite, and/or destroy reports and other documents concerning matters such as inadequate resident care, accidents, and injuries, in order to conceal the fact that the facility's untrained staff and/or understaffed condition caused or contributed to the occurrence in question." (First Amended Complaint for Damages, p. |
 | | Ensign intentionally misrepresented "the causes or contributory conditions of inadequate patient care, accidents, injuries, etc. to third parties such as state regulators and investigators, ombudsman volunteers, attending physicians, and family members and friends of residents." (First Amended Complaint for Damages, p. |
 | | Ensign intentionally failed to staff the nursing home with adequate numbers of caregivers and ordered staff to go home early, "notwithstanding the fact that the level of remaining staff was insufficient to adequately provide for the needs of the residents;" (First Amended Complaint for Damages, pp. |
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