Many families have limited options when providing care to a loved one who requires outside nursing assistance. Typically, the family will choose to place a loved one in a nursing home to ensure they receive the best care possible. Unfortunately, abuse and neglect are serious problems in nursing homes across the United States.
If your loved one was victimized through neglect, mistreatment, or abuse while living in a Manatee County nursing facility, contact the Florida nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal help. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation from recovering your damages. We will use the law to hold those responsible for your harm rightfully accountable.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "non-profit" home providing services to residents of Bradenton and Manatee County, Florida. The 240-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
1902 59th St W
Bradenton, Florida 34209
(941) 761-1000
Casa Mora Rehabilitation and Extended Care
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Casa Mora Rehabilitation and Extended Care offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services involving rehabilitation programs, post-acute services, restorative care, respite care, and palliative care.
Fined $49,600 for substandard care
Both Florida and the federal government can impose a monetary fine or deny payments through Medicare when a nursing facility has been found to violate established regulations and rules. The higher the monetary fine, the more serious the violation is that likely harmed or could have harmed one or more residents at the nursing home.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Casa Mora Rehabilitation and Extended Care for $49,600 on January 24, 2019, citing substandard care. The nursing home received six complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites, including the Florida Department of Public Health and Medicare.gov.
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 two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure that it provided ongoing mentoring and evaluation for the continued use of physical restraints.” The facility also “failed to develop and implement interventions for reducing or eventually discontinuing the use of the restraints.”
The state investigators reviewed the resident’s Physician’s orders that documented to use a “lap tray on the wheelchair for posture and positioning [every shift] (no frequency of release was present on the order).” The resident’s Treatment Administration Record confirmed the Physician’s orders and “was signed off by staff that the lap tray was to be put on the wheelchair every shift.”
However, a review of the resident’s clinical chart revealed that there was “no documentation of the family being informed of the risk or benefit of the wheelchair lap tray restraints. The clinical record had no evidence of continued evaluation to reduce the type of restraint.” Additionally, the resident’s Care Plan “had no focus area regarding restraints.”
A review of the resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) during this time frame documented “in the assessment that no trunk restraint, limb restraint, bed alarm, chair alarm, or other restraint was to be used by [the resident].” However, staff members confirmed that “if the assessment area for the restraint had a positive response [in the section of assessment], it would drive the program to create a restraint Plan of Care focus area, which would include the goals and intervention services for the use of restraints.”
A staff member stated that the resident “has had the restraint, and she transferred from the Memory Care Unit, which he believed had been approximately two months.” The surveyors observed the resident with a full tray in front “of her wheelchair, her arms on the tray; the tray was observed to prevent [the resident] from arising from the chair.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Casa Mora Rehabilitation And Extended Care? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Manatee County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Bradenton.
We provide every potential client a free initial case consultation and offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means you will not pay us anything until after we have secured a monetary recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home