The state board that oversees Iowa’s nursing home administrators issued a warning to the head of Dubuque Specialty Care where a resident was locked outside of the building for 11 hours overnight. In January 2023, Iowa Board of Nursing Home Administrators 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 for an incident that took place in June of 2022 where regulators found that a resident of the home who used a wheelchair was deliberately locked outside overnight.
