Iowa Board Warns Nurse After Nursing Home Resident's Death
Iowa licensing officials issued a warning and ordered 30 hours of educational training for licensed practical nurse Elaine Allison, also known as Elaine McCoy, after a resident at Oskaloosa Care Center died in September 2025. The board alleges Allison failed to call an ambulance and incorrectly identified the resident as "no code" when he was actually a "full code" patient who had requested lifesaving measures; as a result no CPR was performed before he was pronounced dead. State inspectors found the resident's door lacked the correct code-status sticker due to recent room reassignments and that staff could not locate the facility's crash cart during the emergency. The state proposed a suspended $10,000 fine against the facility, and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services separately fined the home $45,354.