Mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing facilities are often the result of the nursing staff or other caregivers not providing the resident care according to established standards of quality. Their inappropriate behavior often leads to harm, injury, or wrongful death. In other incidents, the victim is assaulted by other residents.
If your loved one was harmed while living in a Salt Lake County nursing facility, contact the Utah nursing home network of attorneys at (800) 926-7565 now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers handle your case to ensure you receive monetary compensation. We will use the law to hold those responsible for causing the harm legally accountable.
This long-term care center is a 108-certified bed "government-owned" home providing services to residents of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County, Utah. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
165 South 1000 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102
(801) 322-5521
City Creek Post Acute Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, City Creek Post Acute Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, pain management, hospice, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $61,659 for substandard care
Utah and federal agencies have the legal responsibility of monitoring every nursing home and imposing monetary fines are denying reimbursement payments through Medicare if investigators identify serious violations and deficiencies. These penalties are typically imposed when the violation is severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against City Creek Post Acute Nursing Center for $61,659 on August 03, 2017, citing substandard care.
The nursing home received one complaint over the last thirty-six months that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Utah Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Utah and Medicare.com routinely update their comprehensive list of deficiencies online to reflect all violations
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including two 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 that the nursing home “did not ensure that the resident environment remained as free of accident hazards as was possible. Specifically, the resident’s tab alarm was not observed to be placed properly, and multiple call lights were observed to be out of the resident’s reach.”
The state investigators interviewed the Assistant Director of Nursing, who stated that this resident “had two falls since admission.” The survey team interviewed the resident who was lying “in bed with a tab alarm on the bed next to her but not attached to [the resident, who stated that] he did not use an alarm.”
Two days later at 9:00 AM, the surveyors made a second observation and interviewed the resident who “was lying in bed with no shirt on. The tab alarm was lying next to him on the bed not clipped to [him].” The resident stated, “he did not want to continue to fall [and said that] staff responded after he fell because they had heard him fall.”
The resident said that “he would like to have an alarm that sounded to alert the staff when he started to get out of bed.” The survey team reviewed the resident’s Physician’s orders that indicated that the nurse is to “verify placement and function on every shift.”
Two Fall Risk Evaluations documented on March 27, 2016, revealed that the resident “was at High Risk for Falls.” However, a subsequent evaluation dated March 30, 2016, revealed that the resident “was at Medium Risk for Falls.” The final evaluation, dated April 12, 2016, revealed that “the resident was at High Risk for Falls.”
A review of the resident’s Nurse’s Notes revealed that on March 22, 2016, just after dinner time, the nurse “saw the resident sitting on the floor in the doorway of his room. It was noted that the resident’s bed was in a low position; the resident’s oxygen cannula was lying on the bed. The nurse asked the resident what happened.” The resident responded “Am I on the floor? I do not know how I got on the floor.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury or died prematurely while living at City Creek Post Acute Nursing Center? Contact the Utah nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Salt Lake County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Salt Lake City.
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