Michigan Department of Community Health officials were investigating two deaths that occurred at Omni Continuing Care, which is operated by Ciena. According to the news report, state regulators issued a citation to OCC for failing to supervise a hypoglycemic resident who was not eating and later died. Regulators also cited OCC for failing to monitor a resident who tried to pull out his tracheostomy tube. That resident later died, according to the report. OCC was dinged with several other citations related to negligence.
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The former Ciena employee, a nursing home manager, filed a lawsuit against the parent company, alleging she had been fired after she cooperated in the investigation. The circuit court deliberated for 90 minutes and awarded her $705,000.
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