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This long-term care facility is a 70-certified bed "for profit" home providing services and cares to residents of Cadiz and Harrison County, Ohio. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
308 West Warren Street
Cadiz, Ohio 43907
(740) 942-8084
Carriage Inn of Cadiz Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Carriage Inn of Cadiz Nursing Center offers other services. These services include memory care, Alzheimer’s and dementia care and respite care.
Ohio and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services for any nursing facility cited for serious violations of regulations and rules.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Carriage Inn of Cadiz Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $77,037 fine on May 17, 2017, and a $4,160 fine on March 03, 2016, for a total of $81,197.
The nursing home also received eight complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
Our attorneys review data on every long-term and intermediate care facility on Medicare.com and the Ohio Department of Public Health website.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The nursing home “failed to ensure [a resident] was free from verbal abuse.” The incident involved a severely, cognitively impaired resident.
The Self-Reported Incident Form (SRI) documented that a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) and a State-Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) overheard a second CNA “yelling and swearing at [a resident]. The facility substantiated the allegation of verbal abuse and terminated [that CNAs] employment.”
Documentation shows that the verbally abusive CNA “yelled profane language toward the resident stated he could not stand her, and her fiancé was not there to hear her scream all the time.” Documentation shows that the reporting CNA had “reported the above to the Registered Nurse (RN) supervisor and was told a few weeks later in the had not been addressed.” The reporting CNA “then reported it to the Director of Nursing.”
The Registered Nurse Supervisor had told the allegedly verbally abusive CNA “about not using profane language around the resident but did not report it to the Director of Nursing.” The supervisor had said that “she did not recall it being a big deal; therefore, the Director of Nursing educated the staff not to be cursing on the floor or in resident’s rooms because this could be considered a form of verbal abuse.”
The Director of Nursing “did not report the allegation to the Administrator and did not report the allegation to the State agency” while allowing the verbally abusive CNA to continue working “at the facility until the investigation began.”
According to state investigators, “the facility failed to notify [the resident’s] Physician and the resident’s representative of a decline in a pressure ulcer.” The state investigators reviewed a close medical record of a resident who had expired at the nursing home.
The resident’s documentation showed “abnormalities including a failure to heal, maceration, etc.” that was not reported to the Physician. Also, there was no evidence that the family was notified of a decline in the resident’s health promptly as required by law.
Even though the documentation shows that there was a significant decline in the resident’s coccyx pressure ulcer “there was no change in treatment.” The Director of Nursing verified that the resident’s “representative and Physician were not notified timely of changes/decline in the resident’s pressure ulcer.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Carriage Inn of Cadiz Nursing Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Harrison County victims of abuse and neglect in all Ohio areas including Cadiz.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home