At no time in history have there ever been more senior citizens entering their retirement years. The advancing age of this huge population has increased the need for additional beds in nursing homes and placed a significant demand on the number of nurses required to meet their needs. Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs and many facilities nationwide.If your loved one was injured or died unexpectedly while living in a Marion County nursing facility, contact the Indiana Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation to recover your monetary damages.
This facility is a "for profit" 52-certified bed long term care center providing cares and services to residents of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating home is located at:
2926 N Capitol Ave
Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
(317) 926-0254
Capitol Village Healthcare Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Capitol Village Healthcare Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes long-term care, hospice, respite care, rehab to home, respiratory therapy, and restorative care including physical, occupational and speech therapies.
Indiana nursing home regulators and federal inspectors have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home identified as violating rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. Typically, these penalties include monetary fines and denial for payment of medical services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Capitol Village Healthcare Center for $30,371 on February 13, 2018, citing substandard care. This nursing facility also received twenty complaints and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Indiana Nursing Home Report Cards Website.
Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites including the Indiana Department of Public Health 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 provide preventative care and follow up with alteration of skin integrity that was later identified as an unstageable pressure injury and a stage IV pressure injury.”
The surveyors documented that the facility “also failed to implement treatments for skin wounds timely upon notification of the skin wound and upon readmission to the facility with a skin wound. The nursing home did not “perform weekly skin assessments and failed to thoroughly assess a skin wound for [for five residents] reviewed for pressure ulcers.”
In one case, “there was no admission/readmission assessment completed on March 1, 2018, to assess [one resident’s] skin upon the return to the facility. The Nurse’s Notes did not indicate the condition of [that resident’s] skin upon return to the facility or treatment orders for such.”
The nursing home “failed to follow appropriate infection control practices during wound care and medication administration.” The nursing home failed to “maintain infection control log to adequately monitor, investigate, and analyze infections in the facility with the potential to affect thirty-six residents residing in the facility.”
The surveyors observed the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) placing pills in her hand before placing it in the resident’s hands. Once the resident received their medication, they were observed placing the drug into their mouth and then drinking a cup of water.
The surveyors interviewed the LPN who indicated that the resident “at times refuses to receive his medication in a medication cup. She reported she had washed her hands [before] pulling his medication from the medication cart.”
However, when the surveyors interviewed the resident, he “reported he does not mind if the staff uses a medication cup to administer his medication.” The Director of Nursing indicated that staff “should not use [their] hands to administer medication.” A failure to follow the Infection Prevention Program could lead to inappropriate control measures and the spread of infection.
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse or neglect while living at Capitol Village Healthcare Center? Contact the Indiana nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Marion County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Indianapolis.
Our network of attorneys 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 Jeffrey D. Powless
Licensed in Indiana
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home