Many senior citizens in America received care while residing in a nursing facility managed and operated by skilled, trained professionals. Unfortunately, neglect, abuse, and mistreatment are still serious problems that occur in many assisted living centers, nursing homes, and rehabilitation facilities.
If your loved one was victimized while residing in a Cobb County nursing facility, contact the Georgia Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of lawyers work on your behalf to ensure that your family receives adequate monetary recovery for your damages.
This nursing center is a "for profit" Medicare/Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Austell and Cobb County, Georgia. The 170-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
2130 Anderson Mill Rd
Austell, Georgia 30106
(770) 941-8813
Anderson Mill Health and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing around-the-clock skilled nursing care, Anderson Mill Health and Rehab Center offers other services. These services include memory and dementia care, long-term care, and rehabilitative services involving physical, occupational and speech therapies.
The federal government, through nursing home regulators, can impose fines or deny payment for Medicare services for any nursing facility with severe violations of regulations. Typically, hefty fines are levied against the nursing home when the most egregious violations have occurred that harmed or could harm a resident.
Within the last thirty-six months, state and federal regulators imposed two major monetary penalties against Anderson Mill Health and Rehab Center citing substandard care. These penalties include a massive $339,886 fine on January 20, 2016, and a $13,627 fine on February 3, 2017, for a total of $353,513. Also, Medicare denied payment for services rendered on January 20, 2016.
The facility received ten formally filed complaints that all resulted in citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the Georgia Nursing Home Reporting Website.
To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Georgia and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.
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 three out of five stars for quality measures.
Failure to Provide Every Resident an Environment Free of Accident Hazards and Provide Adequate Supervision to Prevent Avoidable Accidents - citation date March 8, 2017
According to investigators, the facility "failed to provide an environment that was free of accident hazards, including [one resident] with wandering and elopement behaviors and was wearing a WanderGuard, was found in the parking lot by staff" during the evening of September 28, 2016. The surveyor said that the noncompliance of the facility placed the nursing home in Immediate Jeopardy due to the increased risk of harming this patient other residents.
The resident then eloped from the facility's main door three days later on October 1, 2016 "and fell on the main road (Anderson Mill Road), sustaining a hematoma to the back of her head." The surveyors say that this deficiency likely effects eleven residents "with wandering behaviors who wear Wander Guard bracelets."
Failure to Report and Investigate Any Acts or Reports of Abuse, Neglect or Mistreatment of Residents - citation date February 3, 2017
The state surveyors determined that the facility "failed to report to the State Survey Agency (SSA) an allegation of abuse." The incident involved a cognitively intact resident who indicated during an interview "that about a week [before] the interview, the nurse came into her room and gave her medication at about 9:30 PM or 10:00 PM." The resident stated that "she told the nurse the potassium pill needed to be dissolved and the nurse got huffy, left the room and returned with a spoonful that contained the dissolved pills in applesauce."
The resident further indicated that "the nurse then jammed enforce the spoon into [the resident's mouth, saying that she] was not physically injured but it caused her to be angry and upset." The resident indicated that they had spoken to and activities person concerning the incident and that that individual "put it in a report about the incident."
The resident also indicated that "no one had talked to her about the incidents and she reported it [and] she had not seen the accused nurse since the incident." An Activities Assisted stated that the resident did tell them "about the nurse jamming the spoon into her mouth." The Activities Assistant "went and told the Administrator, and the Administrator was going to go and talk to her."
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Anderson Mill Health And Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Georgia nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 now. We represent Cobb victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Austell.
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Attorney Lance D. Lourie
Licensed in Georgia
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