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 Texas 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.
If your loved one was injured, abused, or mistreated while living in a Fort Bend County nursing facility, contact the Texas 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 118-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Richmond and Fort Bend County, Texas. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
1106 Golfview
Richmond, Texas 77469
(281) 344-9191
Cambridge Health And Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Cambridge Health and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes in-house therapies, wound care, pulmonary programs, language and speech therapies, neurological condition care, and swallowing dysfunction care, involving electrical stimulation.
Federal and state investigators can penalize any nursing home that has violated rules and regulations that resulted in harm or could have resulted in the harm of a resident. These penalties include imposing monetary fines and denying payment for Medicare services.
Additional documentation about fines and penalties can be found on the Texas Health and Human Services Nursing Facility Quality Review Website.
The state of Texas 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 two out of five stars, including three 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 facility failed to ensure pain management was provided to residents who require such services consistent with professional standards of practice, the comprehensive person-centered Care Plan and the resident’s goals and preferences.” The investigation involved one resident “reviewed for pain management.”
It was determined that “the facility failed to administer a pain patch as ordered by the Physician before wound care was done for [the resident who] cried and yelled from pain while being treated for [wounds].” It was also noted that the resident’s “pain level assessment was inaccurately documented.”
These failures affected one resident “and placed her at risk of experiencing unnecessary pain and at risk for suffering unnecessary pain in the future.” A review of the resident’s Initial Baseline Care Plan dated November 9, 2018, revealed that the resident “had a Care Plan for pain related to acute/chronic pain.”
The goal in the Care Plan “was to not have an interruption of normal activities due to pain through the review date. Interventions included to have a pain assessment every shift and reposition for comfort.” The resident’s Admitting History and Physical documentation shows that the resident “was admitted with a Stage II pressure sore” on November 9, 2018.
However, documentation from November 14, 2018, indicated that the “pressure sore wound dressing” was now “an unstageable opened area of approximately 2.0 cm in diameter.” When the Licensed Vocational Nurse cleaned the center of the resident’s wound, the resident “cried out in pain.”
The resident indicated that “she had received Tylenol, but it was not helping with the pain.” The survey team interviewed the facility Director of Nursing who was informed that the resident “had expressed pain during wound care and that the [medication patch] on the resident had not been applied that morning as ordered but was signed out.”
One member of the staff stated that they had placed the medication patch on the resident in the morning but had signed the wrong date on the patch. However, when the surveyors asked the resident’s private sitter, who had been in the room, if she had witnessed the patch being placed on the resident she stated “she did not remember [that nurse] placing a patch on her back, but she did remember the surveyor being in the room earlier to observe wound care.
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while residing at Cambridge Health and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Texas nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Fort Bend County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Richmond.
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