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This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "non-profit" home providing services to residents of Sarasota and Sarasota County, Florida. The 95-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
8400 Vamo Road
Sarasota, Florida 34231
(941) 966-5611
Bay Village of Sarasota Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Bay Village of Sarasota Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care. The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services involving home health care options, system living, and rehabilitation, including physical, speech and occupational therapies.
Fined $2,641 for substandard care
Both the federal government and the state of Florida have the legal responsibility to levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if a nursing home violates established rules and regulations that harm or could have harmed residents.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Bay Village of Sarasota Nursing Center for $2,641 on May 18, 2017, citing substandard care. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Florida 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 two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one 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 provide care and treatment to prevent pressure ulcers for [one resident].” Due to “a delay of nine days for an assessment by a qualified Registered Nurse (RN), appropriate assessments, preventative measures, and monitoring were not put into place.”
It was determined that this failure “resulted in the harm to [a resident] who developed three pressure ulcers, one of which requires a higher level of care.” The state investigators observed a resident who said: “she got a big sore on her leg from a splint she had.” The resident indicated that “she had an area on her buttocks they were treating and also had an issue with her heel.”
The resident used a full leg immobilizer on the right leg that needed to be kept on at all times and only removed to receive services and care. The investigators reviewed a body skin assessment documented by a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) when the resident was admitted to the facility, but there were no “documented pressure areas identified at that time.”
The Director of Health Services acknowledged that there were no pressure ulcers on the resident’s admission to the facility and “could not produce any documentation that the facility was offloading [the resident’s] right heel [as ordered], turning her, or checking on skin under the immobilizer from the time of the admission to when the Wound Nurse did her first assessment.
This assessment came nine days after the resident was admitted to the facility. The Director of Health Services “agreed that [the resident] was at high risk for the development of pressure ulcers [and] acknowledged the order said to remove the immobilizer for care and services.” The Administrator also acknowledged that “there was no RN assessment of the skin at the time of admission.”
The Vascular Specialists followed up on the resident’s injuries two months later and noted a wound that measured approximately 5.0 cm x 3.0 cm on the posterior calf area “with exposed muscle and tendon.” Documentation, as of May 1, 2019, indicated that the wound was now a life-threatening Stage IV decubitus ulcer.
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Bay Village of Sarasota Nursing Center? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Sarasota County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Sarasota.
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Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home