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Citadel at Myers Park Nursing Center
This long-term care facility is a 133-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating center providing services to residents of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The "for-profit" home is located at:
300 Providence Road
Charlotte, North Carolina 28207
(704) 334-1671
NO WEBSITE
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Citadel at Myers Park Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $18,614 for substandard care
The federal government has the legal authority to penalize any nursing facility that violates rules and regulations. These penalties include monetary fines and denial of payment for Medicare services. High monetary fines usually indicate extremely severe violations that harmed or could have harmed residents.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Citadel at Myers Park Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $8,297 fine on April 26, 2019, and a $10,317 fine on February 16, 2017, for a total of $18,614.
The nursing home received seven complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every North Carolina long-term care home from various online publically available sources, including the Department of Public Health website 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, two out of five stars for staffing issues, and one out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to prevent a cognitively impaired resident from exiting the facility without staff supervision .” The resident “was at risk for elopement” and “was found hours later at a hotel 2.0 miles away from the facility. The resident required transportation to the hospital for assessment and identification.”
Documentation shows that the resident “was returned to the facility without injury.” State investigators initiated an Immediate Jeopardy [when] the resident “left the facility through the exit door, without supervision, and was found hours later at a hotel 2.0 miles away from the facility.”
A Nurse’s Note, dated April 23, 2019, revealed that the Charge Nurse documented “a call received from the hospital at 12:40 AM [informing the facility of the resident’s] location and retrieval from an uptown location.” The resident “ returned to the facility ” at 4:00 AM with “no new orders and no injury.”
A Nurse Aide explained that the resident and the resident’s family member “came to the third floor during a separate mail delivery [at] approximately 6:00 PM.” The Nurse Aide saw the resident and the family member in the resident’s room “talking to each other.”
Next, the Nurse Aide reported that she saw the resident “walking after the family member in the hallway” [approximately 45 minutes later and] assumed the family member was “taking [the resident] out of the facility to continue a leave of absence.”
The Nurse Aide remade the resident’s bed [and] “did not report visualization of [the resident] in the hall since she assumed [the resident] left with the family member. An alarm did not sound during her shift.” The resident wore a Wander Guard that would signal when “near the open elevator doors.”
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Citadel at Myers Park Nursing Center? Contact the North Carolina nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Mecklenburg County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Charlotte.
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Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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