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This long-term care home is a "for-profit" 159-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, California. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
5154 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90027
(323) 663-3951
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In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Brier Oak on Sunset Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $79,268 for substandard care
The investigators working for the state of California and the federal government had the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services if the nursing home has been cited for serious violations of established regulations and rules.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Brier Oak on Sunset Nursing Center for $79,268 on December 31, 2018, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on December 31, 2018, due to a lack of quality care.
The nursing home received thirteen complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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Los Angeles California Nursing Home Safety Concerns
The state of California and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all deficiencies, 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues, and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to ensure that [the resident] would not be subjected to physical abuse inflicted by [another resident] who used an ice pick in his possession to stab [the resident] on the upper chest.” This “deficient practice violated the resident’s right to be free from physical harm.” The findings indicated that one resident was subjected to physical abuse by another resident, “who was his roommate.”
The injured resident stated during an interview that “he never had an episode or an altercation with his neighbor [the roommate].” The resident said that he and the roommate “were lying on their beds, then suddenly [the roommate] got up, lost his balance, and fell on him holding an ice pick.”
The injured resident also stated that “he got actually stabbed with the ice pick on his upper chest and sustained a small cut or bruise. He also stated he did not press charges against [his roommate] for he thought it was an accident, but he was concerned with the facility allowing a resident to obtain a deadly weapon to keep with him.”
A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) stated that “she was passing the resident’s tray when she heard a resident screaming in one of the rooms. She also stated that when she entered [the injured resident’s] room, she saw [the roommate standing at the injured resident’s] bedside with an ice pick in his hands.” She grabbed the resident’s “hands and convinced him to go back to his own bed. She then called another staff to help her.”
The CNA stated that she saw the injured resident “lying in his bed holding his upper left chest with the bloodstain on the shirt coming from a small puncture wound.” The medical records indicate that the resident “had a cut on his upper left chest measuring 0.2 cm in length from a stab by an ice pick from [the roommate]. The wound was cleansed with normal saline and applied was a triple antibiotic, as ordered. The resident also had a tetanus shot given. The police were called to move the roommate to a psychiatric unit, but their dispatch said that [the roommate] did not belong to the criteria where he could be moved to the psychiatric unit, so the resident was moved immediately to another single room.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Brier Oak on Sunset Nursing Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Los Angeles County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Los Angeles.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home