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 New Haven County nursing facility, contact the Connecticut Nursing Home Law Center 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 facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Cheshire and New Haven County, Connecticut. The 120-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
745 Highland Avenue
Cheshire, Connecticut 06410
(203) 272-7285
Cheshire Regional Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Cheshire Regional Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, pulmonary care and rehab, IV (intervenous) care, post-trauma care, spiritual support services, respite care, cardiac and stroke care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $12,675 for substandard care
Connecticut 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 of payment of medical services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Cheshire Regional Rehabilitation Center for $12,675 on October 16, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received four complaints and self-reported five serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Connecticut Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Connecticut and federal government nursing home regulatory agencies routinely update their care home database system. This list contains historical information of all 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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to report the inappropriate resident-to-resident contact or allegations of mistreatment to the administration or State Agency timely.” This investigation involved a severely cognitively impaired resident who “requires extensive assistance with activities of daily living.”
The resident’s Care Plan identified the resident as having “behavior problems of physical and verbal abuse [as evidence] by grabbing another resident and shaking the resident hard, several times. Interventions directed to intervene as needed to protect the rights and safety of others, approach in a calm manner, divert attention, remove from the situation, and take to another location as needed.”
A Nurse’s Note dated March 16, 2018, at 10:30 PM, identified that a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) had been called into a resident’s room by a Nurse Aide. When entering, the LPN found the resident “on the bed, naked, on top of his/her roommate.” The sexually aggressive resident was on top of the other resident and “supporting him/herself upon his/her knees and right elbow.”
The aggressive resident’s “left hand was on his/her own genitals.” The aggressive resident “was instructed to remove him/herself from [the other resident’s] bed [and was] placed at the nursing station.” However, the nursing staff and administration failed to report the incident to the State Agency until “three days after the event.”
A Registered Nurse (RN) stated that they had received a call from the RN on duty about the incident and indicated that the aggressive resident “was fully clothed on top of the sheets.” Based on that information, they directed the Registered Nurse on duty that “no further action was required and therefore did not direct [the RN] to report the incident to the State Agency.”
However, a review of the facility’s Abuse Prevention Policy and Procedure identified that “all alleged violations involving mistreatment, neglect, or abuse including injuries of unknown source will be reported immediately to the Administrator and other officials [according to] State laws.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Cheshire Regional Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Connecticut nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent New Haven County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Cheshire.
Our legal team invites you to discuss your case with us today through an initial, free claim consultation. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will not owe us anything until after we have secured a monetary recovery for your family.
Sources:
Attorney Nicholas E. Wocl
Licensed in Connecticut
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home