Many families have limited options on how to handle the care of a loved one who requires medical professionals in a skilled nursing environment. Typically, reputable nursing homes follow established procedures and protocols to ensure that every resident’s needs are met. Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs in some facilities in California.
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This facility is a 99-certified bed "for-profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Atwater and Merced County, California. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
1685 Shaffer Rd
Atwater, California 95301
(209) 357-3420
Anberry Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Anberry Nursing and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Federal and state investigators can penalize any nursing home that has violated rules and regulations that resulted in harm or could have resulted in harm to a resident. These penalties include imposing monetary fines and denying payment for Medicare services.
Medicare has cited this facility for abuse. Medicare says that “every nursing home resident deserves to retain their basic human dignity and be treated with respect at all times. Abuse and neglect are never acceptable.” Nursing homes “cited for abuse are required to take steps to protect their residents.”
This nursing facility self-reported two serious problems over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of California and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all deficiencies, citations, and violations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues, and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing facility “failed to ensure residents were free from neglect for [one resident] when the resident experienced a choking episode while eating a meal unsupervised in his room, in the bed.” The “staff did not recognize the emergent situation and delayed calling emergency services.”
A review of the resident’s medical records indicated that the resident “had multiple teeth extractions, and there was no documented assessment performed by licensed nurses after [the resident] returned from his dental appointments.” The resident’s “multiple teeth extractions could have placed the resident at a higher risk of choking, affecting his chewing and swallowing ability. These facts were not communicated to the Speech Pathologist for a swallow evaluation to be done.”
The state investigative team determined that “the facility did not respond timely to the emergent situation and the delay in response lead to the resident’s death. Actual harm to [the resident] that resulted in a choking episode led to the resident’s death [which initiated] an Immediate Jeopardy situation.”
The surveyors interviewed a licensed nurse who stated “’I do not know why the resident went to the dentist’ [and that] she was not aware the resident had tooth extractions whenever he would go to his dental appointments or what procedure was performed by the dentist.”
The nurse stated that the reason why the resident was going to the dentist should have been documented in Progress Notes, stating it is “important licensed nurses assess and document in the Nurse’s ProgressNotes every time [the resident] went to his dental appointment and after the resident comes back from his dental appointment, to ensure continuity of care and provide his care needs.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury, harm, neglect, or died unexpectedly while living at Anberry Nursing and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Merced County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Atwater.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home