Nursing home negligence takes on many forms, where the nursing staff can misbehave, or other patients assault the resident because of a lack of supervision. Many nursing homes throughout North Carolina are understaffed, or the administration hires inadequately trained Nurses and Nurses' Aides. Other nursing facilities did not follow acceptable practices for providing the utmost care.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Hoke County nursing facility, contact the North Carolina Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This long-term care facility is a 132-certified bed "for-profit" home providing services and cares to residents of Raeford and Hoke County, North Carolina. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
1206 N Fulton Street
Raeford, North Carolina 28376
(910) 875-4280
Autumn Care of Raeford Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Autumn Care of Raeford Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $92,251 for substandard care
North Carolina and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services for any nursing facility cited for serious violations of regulations and rules.
Within the last thirty-six months, investigators imposed three monetary penalties against Autumn Care of Raeford Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $13,905 fine on January 26, 2019, a $68,426 fine on June 21, 2017, and a $9,920 fine on June 21, 2017, for a total of $92,251.
This nursing home received ten complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The federal government and North Carolina Department of Public Health website update comprehensive information containing historical details of all 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 three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to implement their abuse policy in the area of reporting abuse to the Administrator.” The policy reads in part: “any suspicions of abuse would be reported to the Administrator.”
The investigation involved a cognitively intact resident whose MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment, dated March 5, 2019, revealed the resident was “moderately cognitively impaired. The resident was coded as being independent in locomotion with the use of a wheelchair.”
The resident stated that “he had been in another resident’s room [and] denied he touched any residents.” The resident was observed driving his motorized wheelchair “both forward and backward without difficulty and positioned himself easily within close proximity of the table where the interview was held.” The resident could freely move his arms and waved them in the air.
A Nurse Aide stated that a second resident had “a mind like a child and she does what she is told.” The Aide stated that she had witnessed [the first resident touching the second resident’s] “breast, and in her brief.” The Nurse Aide asked the female resident “why did you let him do that to you?” The female resident responded in a slurred voice “I do not know.”
The Nurse Aide stated that the aggressive male resident seeks the female resident out. The male resident touches the female resident and that this had “been going on for months.”
The Nurse Aide stated that staff attempts to watch over the female resident but “she just knew what she observed happening to [the female resident] was not right.” The aide stated she witnessed the male resident touching the female resident’s breast and “he had his hand in her brief. There was also the incident she observed in which [the female resident] had her hand in front of the [male resident’s] pants.”
The Nurse Aide also said there were other incidents where the male resident was rubbing the female resident’s side and that “these incidents occurred in the dining room or in the day room when there was no one around.”
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Autumn Care of Raeford Nursing Center? Contact the North Carolina nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Hoke County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Raeford.
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Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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