State regulators say Anne Arundel (MD) group home where boy died violated rules

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/sun-investigates/bs-md-lifeline-investigation-20141115-story.html#page=1

Maryland health regulators say they found serious violations at the group home for disabled foster children where a 10-year-old Baltimore boy died in July — including conflicting records on his care, and miscommunication between staff and the emergency responders and medical personnel who labored to save him — but nothing that contributed to his death.

That conclusion, issued more than four months after the death of Damaud Martin at the Laurel-area group home, surprised child advocates. They call the failure of investigators to interview the nurse who cared for the boy on the night he died a major flaw.

The nurse told The Baltimore Sun in July that the group home, which was managed by a state contractor called LifeLine, was not properly staffed — a violation that state inspectors had found weeks earlier....

Damaud had been in a coma-like condition since 2008, when he suffered trauma that doctors described as the equivalent of shaken-baby syndrome. After his death July 2, Gov. Martin O'Malley promised a thorough investigation, and his Cabinet officials promised to reform oversight of group home contractors. But investigators say they were unable to interview the nurse.

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