Many families have limited options on how to ensure that their loved one receives the best care and choose to place them in a community nursing facility. Unfortunately, the incident rates of abuse and neglect occurring in nursing homes nationwide have risen significantly over the last few decades. Many patients become victims of mistreatment at the hands of caregivers, employees, visitors, or other residents.
If your loved one suffered harm while living in a Cabell County nursing facility, contact the West Virginia 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 nursing facility is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Culloden and Cabell County, West Virginia. The 90-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
30 Hidden Brook Way
Culloden, West Virginia 25510
(304) 390-5709
Cabell Health Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Cabell Health Care Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, daily activity schedules, professional social services, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Both the federal government and the state of West Virginia have the legal responsibility to levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if a nursing home has violated established rules and regulations that harm or could have harmed residents.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of West Virginia 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 two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to report allegations of neglect to required State agencies [timely]." The facility "also failed to thoroughly investigate an allegation of neglect for [one resident]."
The "allegations of neglect involving [one resident] were not reported to the required State agency. The allegation of neglect regarding [the resident] was not thoroughly investigated."
A review of the facility's reportable incidents from the previous six months found that "on July 27, 2017, the resident's daughter voiced concerns about her mother still in her pajamas in the afternoon when she came in to visit on July 23, 2017." The daughter "voiced her concerns to the Social Services Supervisor four days later."
As a part of the facility-conducted investigation, witness statements were taken from six employees. Two of those employees indicated that "they did not provide care for [that resident] on that day."
One Nurse Aide said that "I did not get to do rounds as early as I wanted to. I changed her that morning around 9:00 AM, but she was not ready to get out of bed just yet. Then I had another resident that was throwing up, and I waited with her until the ambulance came to get her. By the time she left, it was lunchtime."
The Nurse Aide stated that "after lunch, I went to her room and her daughter was already there. I explained to her what happened."
The investigators interviewed the resident's daughter, who stated that she had been in the building that day around 1:30 PM. She noted that the resident "had told her that no one had been in to care for her that day. She said she took the mother into the bathroom, took her brief off, and the brief was soaked with urine. The urine was yellow in color and had a very foul odor."
A review of the Grievance/Complaint Form "did not indicate if or when [the incident] was reported to the Director of Nursing or Executive Director" by the Social Services Supervisor." Additionally, the facility "failed to report the allegations to the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification, Nurse Aide Registry, Adult Protective Services, and the ombudsman, as required by the facility's Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation policy."
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Cabell Health Care Center? Contact the West Virginia nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Cabell County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Culloden.
Our law firm provides every potential client an initial free case consultation. Also, we offer a 100% "No Win/No-Fee" Guarantee, meaning you do not owe us any money until we have received a monetary recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Bob Daley
Licensed in West Virginia
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home