Every nursing home in Connecticut has a legal obligation to provide each patient with the highest level of care according to established standards of quality. Unfortunately, many nursing staff will fail to follow the traditional procedures and protocols that can lead to preventable accidents, injuries, and the development of life-threatening bedsores.
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This center is a 90-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of West Haven and New Haven County, Connecticut. The "for-profit" long-term care home is located at:
308 Savin Avenue
West Haven, Connecticut 06516
(203) 932-6411
Apple Rehabilitation West Haven
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Apple Rehabilitation West Haven offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, cardio-pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, trach care, pain management, respite, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $19,383 for substandard care
Both the state of Connecticut and federal agencies are legally obligated to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators find the nursing home seriously violated established nursing home regulations and rules.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Apple Rehabilitation West Haven for $19,383 on April 20, 2017, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on April 09, 2018, due to a lack of quality care.
This nursing facility received six complaints and self-reported four serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Connecticut Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Connecticut 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues, and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to ensure the resident was free from verbal abuse.”
A Social Services Note identified that the resident had reported that when using their call bell for assistance, a Nurse Aide “entered the room and called the resident a ‘fat pig.’ Additionally, the [Nurse Aide] told the resident that he/she was bothering him/her. When the resident requested a larger incontinence brief, [the Nurse Aide told the resident] to lose weight.”
A written statement by another Nurse Aide documented that the verbally abusive Nurse Aide “identified that while he/she was transferring the resident back to bed via a Hoyer lift, [the verbally abusive Nurse Aide] made reference to the resident’s weight by calling the resident fat, suggesting that the resident stop eating, go on a diet, and made a comment [that] the resident’s weight was disgusting.”
Failure to Protect Every Resident from All Forms of Abuse Including Physical and Sexual Assault, Physical Punishment, and Neglect by Anybody – citation #F600 date May 24, 2019
The “facility failed to ensure a resident was free from verbal abuse.” The investigation involved a resident with “memory recall deficits, hallucinations, and delusions.”
A Nurse’s Note dated December 14, 2018, indicates that two Charge Nurses “witnessed a Nurse Aide verbally abuse a resident. The note identified that the Nurse Aide involved stated, while she was on her personal phone, ‘I am on the phone, I am not talking to you’ and then stated to the person on the phone that was [the resident’s name], the retarded ass.”
The note indicated that at the time of the verbal abuse, the resident was alert, knew their name, and “was confused and restless at times.” The investigation identified the Nurse Aide had admitted that she told the resident “to stop acting retarded, and the Nurse Aide was terminated.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Apple Rehabilitation West Haven? Contact the Connecticut nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent New Haven County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including West Haven.
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Sources:
Attorney Nicholas E. Wocl
Licensed in Connecticut
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home