Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of physical abuse, sexual assault, neglect, or mistreatment while residing in a Cuyahoga County nursing facility? Are you concerned that their injuries occurred at the hands of caregivers, nurses, employees, visitors, or other patients? If so, contact the Ohio Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention.
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This permanently closed long-term care home is a 100-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Maple Heights and Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The "for profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
16231 Broadway
Maple Heights, Ohio 44137
(216) 662-0551
When investigators working for the federal government identify severe violations of nursing home rules and regulations, they can penalize the facility by a denial of payment for Medicare services or impose monetary fines. Typically, the greater the monetary penalty, the more serious the violation.
Within the last thirty-six months, investigators imposed five monetary penalties against Broadway Care Center of Maple Heights Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a”
During this time, Medicare denied payment on May 01, 2018, due to a lack of quality care. The nursing home also received twenty-two complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Ohio long-term care home from various online publically available sources including the OH Department of Public Health website and Medicare.gov.
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 two out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state surveyors, “the facility failed to ensure [one resident] was free from abuse by [another resident]. This affected one of four residents reviewed for abuse.
The survey team reviewed the resident’s Nurse’s Notes that revealed the resident “was lying down on his bed when his room they yank him out of bed and through them on the ground, yelling at him and calling him vulgar names.” The assaulting resident, while still holding onto the injured resident’s shirt, “told him he was going to beat his (profanity) and said he hated white people.”
A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) stated they were in the room and asked the assaulting resident “to stop, but he continued to hold onto [the injured resident’s] shirt and yell at him.” After a few seconds, the assaulting resident let go of the injured resident.” The documentation shows that the assaulting resident weighed 230.5 pounds, and the injured resident weighed 159 pounds.
In a separate summary dated May 1, 2018, the “facility failed to ensure [one resident] was free from abuse.” The incident involved a mildly, cognitively impaired resident who in an interview revealed “he had been hit in the head twice at the facility and was worried because he had brain surgery before.”
The resident “revealed nothing happened as a result of him being hit.” A review of the facility Self-Reported Incident concerning physical abuse revealed that an assaulting resident “was witnessed slapping [the injured resident] near the nurse’s station.” The assaulting resident claimed that the injured resident “was in her room, so she hit him on the side of the head when she walked by him. The facility substantiated physical abuse.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Broadway Care Center of Maple Heights Nursing Center, that is now permanently closed? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Cuyahoga County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Maple Heights.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home