An Iowa nursing home administrator, accused of deliberately locking a resident outside of the building in a wheelchair for 11 hours overnight, is now facing disciplinary charges from a state licensing board. The Iowa Board of Nursing Home Administrators has charged Scott Morton with professional incompetence; negligence in the practice of the profession; and violating unspecified regulations, rules or laws related to the practice of nursing home administrators. Morton was identified as the administrator of the Dubuque Specialty Care nursing home on June 22, 2022, when regulators found that a resident of the home who uses a wheelchair was deliberately locked outside overnight. A report says that during the man’s 11 hours outdoors, Dubuque Specialty Care failed to provide him with food, transfer assistance, treatments or any of his medications, which included insulin, placing him in immediate jeopardy.Â
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