Mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing facilities are often the result of the nursing staff or other caregivers not providing the resident care according to established standards of quality. Their inappropriate behavior often leads to harm, injury or wrongful death. In other incidents, the victim is assaulted by other residents.
If your loved one was harmed while living in a Portage County nursing facility, contact the Ohio Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of lawyers handle your case to ensure you receive monetary compensation. We will use the law to hold those responsible for causing the harm legally accountable.
This long-term care center is a 114-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Streetsboro and Portage County, Ohio. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
1645 Maplewood Dr
Streetsboro, Ohio 44241
(330) 626-3031
Arbors at Streetsboro Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Arbors at Streetsboro Nursing Center offers other services. These services include respite care, long-term care, VA services, palliative care, nutritional management, renal disease services, and restorative care including physical and occupational therapies.
The investigators working for the state of Ohio and the federal government had the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services if the nursing home has been cited for serious violations of established regulations.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Arbors at Streetsboro Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $7,150 fine on May 08, 2017, and a $5,265 fine on August 22, 2016, for a total of $12,415.
This nursing facility also received eight complaints and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites including the Ohio Department of Public Health and Medicare.gov.
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.
According to state investigators, “the facility failed to effectively implement their abuse policy and procedure that ensure an injury of unknown origin was thoroughly investigated for [a resident].”
The investigators reviewed a self-reported incident when a resident “complained of left pain and was sent to the hospital.” The resident “reported that he was dropped to the floor by two people yelling. A review of the Hospital History and Physical dated December 8, 2018, indicated [that the resident] had severe physical debility with contracted lower extremities. The resident had x-rays completed of the pelvis and femur appearing comminuted left femoral metaphysis [irregular] bone.”
A witness statement documented by a State-Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) revealed that while doing her initial safety rounds, she found the resident “had not had his dinner. When she asked him why he had not eaten, the resident complained of his head and knee hurting.” The STNA “pulled back a blanket and noted [the resident’s] left leg was in bad shape.”
At that time, the resident “reported that a man and woman rolled him and dropped him.” The STNA “immediately informed the Charge Nurse.” The documentation shows that “the facility was able to determine how the fracture occurred and whether it was a pathologic fracture.”
The state investigators interviewed the Administrator who indicated that “she had no witness statements or interviews from the STNAs caring for [the resident during that time] just [before] the resident complained of pain to the left leg.”
The nursing home “failed to ensure a fracture, presenting as an injury of unknown origin for [one resident] was thoroughly investigated as an incident of abuse.”
The failure from the nursing home to take action violated their procedures and policies including their Abuse Prevention Program that indicated “for all alleged or suspected cases of mistreatment, neglect, injuries of unknown source or abuse reported, the facility Administrator, Director of Nursing, or individuals designated will immediately report the allegation.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect or abuse while living at Arbors at Streetsboro Nursing Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Portage County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Streetsboro.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home