Many families have limited options on how to ensure that their loved one receives the best care and choose to place them in a community nursing facility. Unfortunately, the incident rates of abuse and neglect occurring in nursing homes nationwide have risen significantly over the last few decades. Many patients become victims of mistreatment at the hands of caregivers, employees, visitors, or other residents.
If your loved one suffered harm while living in a Caddo County nursing facility, contact the Oklahoma Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This facility is a 92-certified bed "for profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Anadarko and Caddo County, Oklahoma. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
300 West Washington
Anadarko, Oklahoma 73005
(405) 247-3346
The federal government and the state of Oklahoma are authorized to penalize any nursing home with monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services when the facility has been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Anadarko Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for $8,161 on April 06, 2017, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on two occasions including on April 18, 2018, and January 02, 2018, due to a lack of quality care.
The nursing home also received twelve complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional documentation about fines and penalties can be found on the Oklahoma Long Term Care Provider Inspection Search Website.
Our attorneys review data on every long-term and intermediate care facility on Medicare.com and the Oklahoma Department of Public Health website.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and one out of five stars for quality measures.
According to investigators, “the facility failed to provide continuous one-on-one monitoring to prevent abuse.” The deficient practice by the nursing staff “had the potential to affect all seventy residents.”
The surveyors reviewed a Nurse’s Note dated June 14, 2018, that shows the resident walked up to another resident “and hit her with a closed fist on the back of the head. The residents were immediately separated and [the aggressive resident] was placed on one-on-one monitoring” for six days “when she was discharged from the psychiatric hospital.”
A review of the resident’s Admission Assessment dated June 15, 2018, showed that the cognitively impaired resident “exhibited physical and verbal behaviors within the last four to six days and had delusions.” A separate Nursing Note dated June 17, 2018, documented that the resident “was having a verbal altercation with another resident. A staff member intervened to stop the altercation. The resident was yelling, cursing and threw a chair, hitting the staff member in the leg. She was redirected but continued to yell and curse. She then attempted to get on a church bus and the Director of Nursing kept her off the bus.”
At that time, the resident “began swinging at the Director of Nursing [who] attempted to get her inside the building, but she began yelling and cursing and threw a chair through the facility window.” In a separate altercation documented in a nursing note dated June 18, 2018, showed that the resident who was “on the front porch attacked [another resident], their family member, and [the second resident].”
The physically aggressive resident “had struck another resident and her family member and pulled [the other resident] out of his chair [while being] very verbally aggressive.” One assaulted resident was interviewed on the morning of June 21, 2018, describe what happened. She stated that the resident “was sitting on the front porch and got up and went up to her. She stated her son got between her and the resident and then she hit him also. She stated that the resident then hit her in the head again.
The investigators state that the “resident was supposed to have been continuously monitored starting on June 14, 2018, after the first altercation. The resident was not continuously monitored and had two more abusive altercations with residents and a family member.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Anadarko Nursing and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Oklahoma nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Caddo County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Anadarko.
Our legal team offers every client a free, initial case consultation. Additionally, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means you do not owe us anything until we have secured monetary compensation on your behalf.
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