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This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "for-profit" home providing services to residents of Boynton Beach and Palm Beach County, Florida. The 167-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
2839 S Seacrest Blvd
Boynton Beach, Florida 33435
(561) 732-2464
Boulevard Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Boulevard Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
Fined $380,470 for substandard care
Both the State of Florida and the federal government can impose a monetary fine or deny payments through Medicare when a nursing facility is found to violate established regulations and rules. The greater the monetary fine, the more serious the violation is that likely harmed or could have harmed one or more residents at the nursing home.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Boulevard Rehabilitation Center for $380,470 on March 02, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received six complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Florida 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, 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 prevent neglect on [three residents] reviewed for injuries of an unknown source.” In one case, a resident sustained “multiple rib fractures and a punctured lung, resulting in death.” It was determined that “this incident resulted in an Immediate Jeopardy.”
The investigation involved a severely, cognitively impaired resident who had required extensive two-person assist with activities of daily living.” The resident’s Care Plan indicated that the patient was “at risk for falls, self-care deficit, contractures to lower extremities, and risk for bleeding related to blood thinner use.”
The documentation shows that the nursing staff was to use a mechanical Hoyer lift to make all transfers. A Social Services Progress Note indicated that a Manage Care Case Manager had visited the resident at the hospital and was informed that the resident had “five broken ribs and a bruise along the side of her torso. The abuse hotline was made aware of the injury of an unknown source by the Social Services Director,” who also served as the Abuse Coordinator.
Documents indicated that she had immediately called in the abuse allegation into proper authorities and started an investigation. The Director stated that they were unable to substantiate anything and that they “had no knowledge of any incidents.”
Documentation shows a fire rescue arrived and sent the patient from the nursing home to the hospital due to “shortness of breath and altered mental status.” An x-ray on the chest revealed that the resident had “multiple displaced right rib fractures with possible hemothorax (blood in the chest cavity) and the collapse of the right lung.”
The Critical Care Physician documented that the patient arriving from the nursing home “is actively dying and most likely was in an interim reversible state.” The resident was “a known Do Not Resuscitate (DNR); continued DNR status; and made the patient comfortable.”
The results of an autopsy described the manner of death as chest trauma. The state surveyors imposed a monetary fine of $380,470 during their investigation of this and other citations on March 2, 2018.
Were you the victim of mistreatment while you lived at Boulevard Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Palm Beach County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Boynton Beach.
Our legal team offers every client a free, initial case consultation. Additionally, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means you do not owe us anything until we have secured a monetary compensation on your behalf.
Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home