The resident, who later died, was originally hospitalized at the facility for an unspecified infection. In 2012, a former physician’s assistant from Claremore Veterans Center served 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to three misdemeanor charges of aggravated assault.
A total of four staff members employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Talihina, Oklahoma, have resigned after maggots were discovered in the wound of a resident who had been hospitalized at the facility.
The resident, who later died, was originally hospitalized at the facility for an unspecified infection. Executive Director Myles Deering said last week that although the maggots were found in the man’s wound before he died, his cause of death was sepsis and was determined to be unrelated to the parasites.
“He did not succumb as a result of the parasites. He succumbed as a result of the sepsis,” Deering stated.
Three nurses, including the…
