Many families have limited options for what to do when they can no longer provide care to a loved one in need of extensive medical treatments or hygiene assistance. Some families choose to relocate their loved one into a nursing home, believing that they will receive the best care in a safe, compassionate environment. Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs at many facilities throughout North Carolina.
Was your loved one abused or neglected while residing in a Randolph County nursing facility? If so, contact the North Carolina Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal help. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your behalf to ensure that those responsible for causing the harm are held legally and financially accountable. We will use the law to ensure your family receives monetary compensation for your damages.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "for-profit" home providing services to residents of Asheboro and Randolph County, North Carolina. The 96-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
500 Mountain Top Drive
Asheboro, North Carolina 27203
(336) 625-2074
Clapp's Convalescent Nursing Home
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Clapp's Convalescent Nursing Home offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
Fined $55,059 for substandard care
The investigators from the federal government and North Carolina penalize caregiving facilities identified with severe violations of nursing home rules and regulations by withholding payment for Medicare services or imposing monetary fines. The higher the penalty usually means the worse offense.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Clapp's Convalescent Nursing Home for $55,059 on May 24, 2018, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on May 24, 2018, due to a lack of quality care.
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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The State of North Carolina and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies. This update ensures families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides in their community.
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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "neglected to implement a Care Plan intervention related to falls.” The intervention would ensure that the resident “was not to be left alone in the bathroom when she was assisted with toileting.” Instead, the resident “was assisted to the bathroom by a Nursing Assistant, who exited the bathroom to retrieve items from the resident’s room.”
During that time, the resident “fell as she attempted to transfer independently from the toilet to her wheelchair, while unattended by staff . The fall resulted in [the resident] sustaining a subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding in the space between the brain and the tissue covering the brain).” The resident also received “a subdermal hematoma (pool of blood between the brain and the outermost covering).”
A review of the resident’s Plan of Care had a focus area with the potential for falls. The area “was initiated on November 28, 2016 and reviewed on January 12, 2018. The interventions included, in part, [that the staff is to monitor the resident] during toileting tasks if assisted to the bathroom. Transfer [the resident] back to the chair/bed. Do not leave the resident alone in the bathroom.”
An Incident Report, dated March 1, 2018, indicated that the resident “had an unwitnessed fall with an injury on March 1, 2018, at 8:15 AM.” The resident’s “injuries were noted as a skin tear (superficial), bruise/redness and a hematoma.”
Documentation shows that the resident “had fallen from the toilet and onto the floor as she was attempting to transfer into her wheelchair.” The resident “was noted to have two skin tears; one to the left elbow and one to the left knee.”
The Nurse Aide reported that “after she transferred [the resident] from her wheelchair to the toilet , she stepped out of the bathroom to pick up the resident’s nightgown and linens from the floor in her room.” The Nurse Aide indicated that “while she was outside of the bathroom, she heard [the resident] scream. She noted that [the resident] had not called out verbally for her assistance, and she had not rung the call bell.”
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Clapp's Convalescent Nursing Home? Contact the North Carolina nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Randolph County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Asheboro.
Our law firm provides every potential client an initial free case consultation. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise ensures that you do not owe us any money until we have received a monetary recovery on your behalf.
Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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