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This nursing home is a Medicare and Medicaid-participating "nonprofit" center providing cares and services to residents of Greensburg and Decatur County, Indiana. The 64-certified bed nursing facility is located at:
2320 N Montgomery Road
Greensburg, Indiana 47240
(812) 527-2222
Aspen Place Health Campus
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Aspen Place Health Campus offers other services. Additional focused care includes post-acute health care services, memory care, and assisted living options.
When investigators working for the federal government identify severe violations of nursing home rules and regulations, they can penalize the facility by a denial of payment for Medicare services or impose monetary fines.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Aspen Place Health Campus for $24,830 on June 15, 2016, citing substandard care. This nursing home also received five complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Indiana Nursing Home Report Cards Website.
Our attorneys review data on every long-term and intermediate care facility on Medicare.com and the Indiana Department of Public Health website.
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.
According to investigators, “the facility failed to follow appropriate infection control guidelines related to medication administration and a dressing change. This deficient practice affected [one resident] reviewed for nebulizer treatments and affected [one resident] observed for wound dressing changes.”
The surveyors observed the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) providing nebulizer treatment for a resident without cleansing the mouthpiece or the medication cup and never allowing the devices to air dry before placing them in the holder.
The surveyors interviewed the Registered Nurse (RN) who indicated “after administering a nebulizer treatment, staff failed to rinse out the mouthpiece and medication cup then place them on the paper towel to dry.” This failure was verified by the Director of Nursing who stated that the facility should follow their “infection control guidelines.”
The facility “failed to ensure the resident that self-administered medications was appropriately assessed for self-medication administration.” The surveyors observed the resident “in his room, asleep in his recliner. Two small cups that contained multiple medication tablets and capsules were observed on the resident’s bedside table.” The resident had indicated later during an interview that they had to “self-administer their medications.”
The survey team interviewed the Director of Nursing who indicated “if a resident wished to self-administer medications, they would first be assessed for their ability to do so.” However, no documentation in the resident’s clinical record “indicated the resident had been assessed for safe self-medication administration since November 27, 2017. The clinical record lacked a quarterly self-administration medication assessment” since that date.
The nursing home “failed to provide adequate urinary catheter care for [one resident] reviewed for urinary catheter care.” The surveyors observed the resident “to have a suprapubic indwelling catheter. The drainage tubing and bag contained yellow urine. The drainage bag was inside a dignity bag.”
While the resident’s Treatment Administration Record documented that the resident was to have “suprapubic catheter cares every shift, twice a day. This order was discontinued on October 14, 2018, when [the resident] was admitted to the local hospital.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse or neglect while living at Aspen Place Health Campus? Contact the Indiana nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Decatur County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Greensburg.
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Sources:
Attorney Jeffrey D. Powless
Licensed in Indiana
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home