A North Carolina committee that hears complaints and assesses penalties against long-term care homes -- the Penalty Review Committee -- recommended a $8500 fine against Sunrise Family Care Home (resident was beaten and stabbed to death after he eloped; staff did not report his absence for 10 days); a $16,000 fine against Alterra Sterling House (staff failed to perform CPR on a resident who did not have a DNR order); and a $16,000 fine against Salisbury Gardens (resident eloped, "hit her head on a rock and died eight days later").  The Committee declined to recommend a fine against Parkway Retirement Home (resident strangled to death in his bedrails, weeks after being injured in a similar incident).  The Parkway attorney argued that the state imcorrectly cited improper use of restraints; the Committee chair said that state regulators could recite Parkway.  Thomas Goldsmith, "A Cary facility resident died in an accident similar to one he had been injured in earlier," The News & Observer (Oct. 12, 2007).