A nursing home owned by Valley Health System has been fined $100,000 and issued a AA citation after a patient died two days after suffering a blow to her head. Both the fine and the citation are the most severe that officials with the California Department of Public Health could issue to a nursing home.

This is the second AA fine to be issued to a Riverside County nursing home within a year. Earlier this year, inspectors cited and fined The Springs at the Carlotta in Palm Desert after a patient died of an infection from a torn colon.

Ken August, spokesman for the state public Health Department, said Hemet Valley Healthcare Center has put together a plan showing how it will correct problems in the citation.

Records show that the officials at the facility didn't report the woman's death to authorities even though they knew about it. Before last week, the nursing home had not been fined or cited in over four years.

The Healthcare Center was cited after they failed to immediately contact a doctor after an 81-year-old woman hit her head on a bed rail. She died two days later from bleeding in the brain.

nursing home abuse can take the form of neglect. When someone is hurt in a nursing home because someone fails to do their job, proper action must be taken to remedy the situation.

If someone you care about has been the victim of nursing home abuse, contact a nursing home attorney right away.