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 Nurse’s Aides. Other nursing facilities did not follow acceptable practices for providing the utmost care.
Do you suspect that your loved one was injured while living in a Brunswick County nursing facility? If so, 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 center is a 100-certified bed "for-profit" home providing services to residents of Ash and Brunswick County, North Carolina. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
9600 Number 5 School Road
Ash, North Carolina 28420
(910) 287-6007
Brunswick Health and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Brunswick Health and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $131,365 for substandard care
Nursing home regulatory agency investigators have a legal responsibility for penalizing any facility violating regulations if the violation harmed or could have harmed a resident. These penalties often include monetary fines and denying payment of Medicare services.
Medicare has cited this facility for abuse. Medicare says that “every nursing home resident deserves to retain their basic human dignity and be treated with respect at all times. Abuse and neglect are never acceptable.” Nursing homes “cited for abuse are required to take steps to protect their residents.”Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Brunswick Health and Rehabilitation Center for $131,365 on January 10, 2019, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received seven complaints and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years 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 state of North Carolina and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies. Help ensure the families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides in their community.
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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to protect the right to be free from physical and verbal abuse for [two residents] who were reviewed for abuse.” In one incident, a Nursing Assistant “verbally cursed and insulted [a resident], and physically grabbed [the resident] by the genitals when she forcefully transferred the resident from the bed to a wheelchair.”
The injured victim “reported he experienced embarrassment, fear, and anxiety, created by the verbal and physical abuse inflicted on him by [the Nurse Aide]. Additionally, the facility failed to prevent [the Nurse Aide] from verbally abusing [another resident] as she cared for the resident.”
In the second case, the abused resident “was visibly shaken and scared as a result of this abuse, requiring a staff member to sit with the resident for fifteen minutes to calm her nerves.” The investigators determined an Immediate Jeopardy began on December 12, 2018, when the Nurse Aide “used profanity and insults and grabbed [one resident] by the genitals when transferring the resident from his bed to the wheelchair.”
The Administrator and Director of Nursing stated they accused the Nursing Aide of abuse. The Aide reported that “ she never used profanity toward [the resident] and she was only trying to motivate the resident to do as much for himself as possible.”
The Nurse Aide “commented she had never been accused of abusive behavior before, so she quit her job.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of harm, mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Brunswick Health and Rehabilitation 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 Brunswick County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Ash.
You will not be charged to discuss your case with our legal team during an initial, free case review. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means that you will owe us nothing until we have secured financial compensation on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices concerning your monetary recovery case will remain confidential.
Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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