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This long-term care facility is an 118-certified bed "for-profit" home providing services and cares to residents of Hoover and Jefferson County, Alabama. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
575 Southland Drive
Hoover, Alabama 35226
(205) 721-6200
Aspire Physical Recovery Center at Hoover
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Aspire Physical Recovery Center at Hoover offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
The state of Alabama and the federal government are legally responsible for monitoring each nursing home and impose monetary fines and deny payments through Medicare if serious violations have been identified. These penalties are typically imposed when the violation is severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
The nursing home received four complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Alabama Adult Protective Services Website.
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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Alabama Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
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 three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home failed to ensure a resident “was provided a safe and hazard-free room environment as evidenced by a medication cup containing [one resident’s medications found in another resident’s room].” A review of the facility’s policy titled: Incidents and Accidents states that “the guest environment remained as free of accident hazards as is possible [and] an incident is an occurrence that may not be consistent with the routine operation of the facility or the routine care of a particular guest.”
The investigators observed a medication cup “containing three pills on the dresser in [one resident’s room]. The surveyor [asked that resident if they had] taken his/her morning medications.” The resident replied that they had taken their morning medications.
Ten minutes later, the investigator and Unit Manager/Registered Nurse (RN) entered the resident’s room and “observed a medication cup containing three pills on the dresser.” The RN asked the resident if “the nurse had given him/her their medications that morning.” That resident indicated that they had taken their medications already.
The Unit Manager stated during an interview that medication should not be left in a cup in the resident’s room because there was potential harm, saying, “you do not know if they take the medication; they may take the medications, or they may drop the medications.”
The Unit Manager further explained that nurses “cannot ensure the residents are taking them like they are supposed to if we do not see them take them.” Another Registered Nurse was asked, “why did she leave [the resident’s] medications when she went into [another resident’s] room?” That RN said that she had prepared one resident’s medications and “heard a call light go off and it was [the other resident’s] call light.”
The nurse said that “she thought it was going to be a quick in and out [and further explained that the other resident] required assistance with getting to the bathroom and by the time she [was finished assisting the other resident] she forgot the medication was sitting on the dresser.” This Registered Nurse said that the resident “could take the wrong medication, or they could choke on them.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of harm, abuse, neglect, or mistreatment while residing at Aspire Physical Recovery Center at Hoover? Contact the Alabama nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Jefferson County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Hoover.
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Sources:
Attorney Brian Murphy
Licensed in Alabama
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home