Any mistreatment of the senior citizen in a nursing facility can constitute neglect or abuse if it occurs at the hands of caregivers, employees, family members, friends, or other patients. Every member of the nursing staff and employee always has a legal responsibility to protect their residents and keep them safe in their environment.
If your loved one was injured while residing in a Sandusky County nursing facility, contact the Ohio Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation for your damages. Time is of the essence. All necessary documentation must be filed in the proper county courthouse before the statute of limitations expires.
This long-term care center is an 85-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Clyde and Sandusky County, Ohio. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
700 Helen Street
Clyde, Ohio 43410
(419) 547-9595
The state and federal investigators have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home that has been cited for a serious violation that harmed or could have harmed in nursing home resident. Typically, these penalties include imposed monetary fines and denial of Medicare reimbursements.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Astoria Place of Clyde Nursing Center for $8,125 on April 13, 2017, citing substandard care.
This nursing facility also received one complaint and self-reported three serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Ohio and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
According to investigators “the facility failed to ensure a family [member] was notified on a significant change. This [deficient practice affected one resident] reviewed for family notification of a significant change in condition.”
The investigators reviewed the resident’s Progress Note that shows that the resident “requires the use of an indwelling Foley catheter for bladder emptying.” The Progress Note documents the resident’s penis foreskin was extremely painful by irregular skin swelling.
The condition appears to be from “the catheter tubing.” The resident had a documented “urethra opening larger from the Foley, and a small amount of greenish/yellow drainage noted from the site.” During an interview with the Assistant Director of Nursing, it was revealed that “the facility believed hospice was going to take care of the family contact.” The Assistant Director verified that “there is no documented evidence the facility or hospice ever actually notified [the resident’s] family.”
The nursing home “failed to ensure weight monitoring and appropriate nutritional interventions were implemented when significant weight changes occurred.” The deficient practice involved three residents “reviewed for nutrition.”
In one incident, a review of a resident’s Quarterly MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment identify the resident “as having severe cognitive impairment” and having “a weight loss of 5% or more in the last month, or 10% or more in the last six months, and not being on a prescribed weight loss regimen.”
A review of the resident’s Nutritional Care Plan identified “the resident as having a nutritional problem or the potential for a nutritional problem related to oral intakes varying, and at risk for significant weight loss possibly due to adequate oral intakes.”
The Care Plan indicated that the resident had lost a significant amount of weight in one month and “refused supplements. Interventions included to [remain] alert for signs and symptoms of malnutrition” that could be identified as “a weight loss of three pounds in one week, greater than 5% in one month, greater than 7.5% in three months, or greater than 10% weight loss in six months.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Astoria Place of Clyde Nursing Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Sandusky County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas in Ohio including Clyde.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home