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Nursing homes phasing out alarms to reduce falls

| Associated Press
Madison, Wis. — Alarms no longer go off when a resident shifts in bed or rises from a wheelchair at Oakwood Village Prairie Ridge in Madison. Nurses no longer place fall mats next to beds or lower beds to the floor when residents sleep.

 

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