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This long-term care home is a "non-profit" 60-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Scotland Neck and Halifax County, North Carolina. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
921 Junior High School Road
Scotland Neck, North Carolina 27874
(252) 826-4144
Bryan Health and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Bryan Health and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $13,905 for substandard care
State and federal nursing home regulatory agency investigators are legally authorized to impose monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services. These penalties are typically the result of the nursing facility being cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Bryan Health and Rehabilitation Center for $13,905 on July 16, 2019, citing substandard care. The nursing home received eight complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
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 federal government and North Carolina Department of Public Health website update comprehensive information containing historical details of all citations and violations.
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 the nursing home "failed to provide a safe environment, by failing to lock the medication cart when unattended.” The investigation involved two nursing staff members, “observed during a medication pass.”
On one occasion, a Medication Aide prepared medication for a resident and “left the medication cart unlocked and entered the resident’s room to administer the [drug]. The medication cart was not in view of the Medication Aide when in the resident’s room.”
The Aide said that “she was supposed to lock the medication cart when it is not in sight.” The Aide said that “she did not lock the cart because she knew she would be back in just a second.” The Director of Nursing stated that “the medication cart should be locked when the Medication Aide was away from the cart.” The Director said that she had spoken to the Aide “about not locking the medication cart in the past.”
The “facility failed to assess a pressure ulcer and failed to carry out a Wound Clinic referral, which resulted in the decline of infection of a wound.”
The Director of Nursing stated that the resident had been admitted from the hospital with “redness on her buttocks from incontinence.” The Treatment Administration Records revealed, “daily documentation that dressing treatments had been conducted, as ordered, were signed off by the nursing staff.” However, there was “no description of the wound included in the Treatment Administration Records.”
The Director of Nursing’s Note from February 26, 2019, revealed: “the excoriated areas to the buttocks had increased in size.” By March 4, 2019, the “excoriated areas on the buttocks and sacral area continued [to worsen] and a new treatment was initiated.”
The nursing staff was to turn and reposition the resident “every two hours for pressure relief.” By April 9, 2019, the Nurse’s Note indicates that “the wound bed was covered with dark gray tissue, with a moderate amount of foul-smelling purulent drainage.” The records indicate that “the wound also had some yellow slough.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Bryan 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 Halifax County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Scotland Neck.
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