Many families have limited choices when placing a loved one in a nursing facility to ensure they receive the highest level of professional care. These families often find comfort in knowing that their loved one will remain safe in a compassionate environment. Unfortunately, mistreatment is an all too common occurrence in many nursing facilities throughout Connecticut, where caregivers, employees, or other residents injure patients.The Connecticut Nursing Home Law Center attorneys have represented many New Haven County nursing home patients who were victimized through abuse and neglect. Our legal team of abuse prevention lawyers works on behalf of our clients to help them receive adequate financial compensation to recover their damages. We use the law to take immediate action and hold those responsible for the harm legally accountable.
This facility is a "for-profit" 360-certified bed long term care center providing cares and services to residents of Hamden and New Haven County, Connecticut. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating home is located at:
850 Mix Ave
Hamden, Connecticut 06514
(203) 281-3500
Arden House Nursing Home
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Arden House Nursing Home offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-stay care, IV (intravenous) therapy, respite care, hospice, wound care, dementia and memory care, colostomy care, and restorative services involving physical, speech and occupational therapies.
Fined $19,039 for substandard care
The federal government and the state of Connecticut routinely monitor every nursing facility to identify serious violations of established rules and regulations and levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when problems are found. Typically, these violations result in penalties when investigators found severe problems that harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Arden House Nursing Home for $19,039 on September 21, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received seven complaints and self-reported five serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the State of Connecticut Official Website Social Work Services Page.
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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, two out of five stars for staffing issues and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that “the facility failed to prevent the misappropriation of the resident’s personal property, which resulted in the fraudulent use of the resident’s credit card.” The investigation involved a resident with “some memory and cognitive defects [who] required extensive two-person assistance with activities of daily living and taking care of his/her own personal belongings.”
According to the Reportable Event Form, the local police department called the Director of Nursing to report that a Nurse Aide “was arrested after an investigation in which a resident’s credit card was used to pay for [the Nurse Aide’s] rent and multiple purchases.” The police indicated that “the resident was always in possession of the credit card.”
The nursing home “failed to investigate an injury of unknown origin.” The investigation involved a review of a severely, cognitively impaired resident’s chest x-ray “taken at the facility on March 11, 2016, [that] identified no acute findings.” This resident “requires total care with activities of daily living and had no falls or fractures in the last six months.”
The resident was admitted to the hospital to address a fracture involving a “mildly displaced ninth rib fracture identified on the recent chest x-ray.” The Director of Nursing Services “identified that although he/she was aware of the rib fracture by [the hospital] that had contacted and faxed information [concerning the resident’s injury], he/she did not conduct a facility investigation when made aware of the rib fracture.”
The Director identified that the resident had not recently fallen and “did not take the investigation any further, conduct interviews with facility staff, or report the fracture to the State Agency,” as required by state and federal rules and regulations.
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Arden House Nursing Home? 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 Hamden.
We do not charge for case evaluations and consultations. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means we will postpone all of your payments for legal services until after we have secured a financial recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Attorney Nicholas E. Wocl
Licensed in Connecticut
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