3 Madison-area nursing homes under fire after series of 'immediate jeopardy' citations
DAVID WAHLBERG
Kristi Kading's father, Bob Nichols, died from choking on food in the dining room at The Bay at Belmont Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home on Madison's East Side. The facility had the most regulatory violations and the most serious citations of any nursing home in Wisconsin over the past four years.
Before he retired, Bob Nichols ran presses for a printing company. He lived at a Madison nursing home for about 10 months before dying from choking on food in the dining room at dinnertime.
Kristi Kading was used to being an advocate for her parents, both of whom were deaf from childhood, but said she had a hard time getting staff at The Bay at Belmont Health and Rehabilitation Center to take her concerns about her father's eating risks seriously.
Read the immediate jeopardy citations against 2 of the state's worst-performing nursing homes
The Bay at Belmont Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home on Madison’s East Side, and Middleton Village Nursing and Rehab in Middleton are among 12 of the state’s 342 nursing homes on federal lists of the country’s worst-performing facilities. Here's what inspectors found.
Kristi Kading's father, Bob Nichols, died from choking on food in the dining room at The Bay at Belmont Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home on Madison's East Side. The facility had the most regulatory violations and the most serious citations of any nursing home in Wisconsin over the past four years.
Before he retired, Bob Nichols ran presses for a printing company. He lived at a Madison nursing home for about 10 months before dying from choking on food in the dining room at dinnertime.
Kristi Kading was used to being an advocate for her parents, both of whom were deaf from childhood, but said she had a hard time getting staff at The Bay at Belmont Health and Rehabilitation Center to take her concerns about her father's eating risks seriously.
