Some statistics show that more than one million Americans currently live in nursing homes. Many of these patients are our mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, children, and friends. Families often relocate their loved one into a nursing home knowing that they will receive the best care and improve quality of life in a safe environment.
Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs in many nursing homes, including those in Rogers County. If your loved one was injured or died prematurely while residing in a nursing home, contact the Oklahoma Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This nursing home is a Medicare and Medicaid-participating "for profit" center providing cares and services to residents of Claremore and Rogers County, Oklahoma. The 118-certified bed nursing facility is located at:
920 East 16th Street
Claremore, Oklahoma 74017
(405) 943-6444
Federal investigators penalize nursing facilities with monetary fines and denied payment for Medicare when the nursing home had been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
The nursing home also received two complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the Oklahoma Long Term Care Provider Inspection Search Website.
Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites including the Oklahoma 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.
According to state surveyors, “the facility failed to administer a skin treatment per the Physician’s orders” and failed to “ensure call lights were answered [promptly].” The deficient practice “had the potential to affect all eighty-four residents who resided in the facility.”
The state surveyors reviewed one resident’s Physician’s orders, and treatment and administration records. The Physician orders documented that the nursing staff would provide skin treatment care. However, numerous Treatment Administration Records “did not contain the documentation of the Physician’s orders for the treatment.”
Additionally, the Quarterly Assessment documented that “the resident had no skin issues and no creams or ointments had been applied during the look-back period.”
In a separate summary statement dated February 18, 2016, the facility “failed to assess, monitor, and intervene [promptly for one resident] who had experienced falls.” The fall “was not reported by staff to the Charge Nurse until the next day. There were no assessment, monitoring, or interventions for this resident until the afternoon of the following day.”
As a result, the resident sustained injuries to her right distal femur leg bone. A Nurse’s Note documented that “the resident had a fall out of bed last night.” Vital signs were taken, and the resident was assessed. The resident complained of “pain in the right knee, and there was some inflammation.” The resident was sent out to the hospital for further evaluation and returned from the hospital following surgery to the right femur.
While the Assistant Director of Nursing provided an in-service document on what a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) should do when a resident falls, and there were fourteen signatures on the in-service form, “there was no documentation of what information was provided to the staff at the in-service” meeting.
The nursing home “failed to thoroughly investigate allegations of abuse and neglect.” The facility “identified two allegations of abuse and neglect had been made in the last three months. This [failure] had the potential to affect all ninety-four residents who resided in the facility.”
Documentation shows that “reportable allegations of abuse/mistreatment were reviewed” involving an investigation that included focused assessments and interviews. However, “there was no documentation the interviews or focused assessments had been completed.”
The surveyors asked the Director of Nursing to provide interviews and focus assessments “done to investigate the allegation of abuse. The Director stated that Grace Living Center does not allow for interviews or focus assessments to be written down. This is how I was taught and how I am doing the investigations.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Claremore Nursing Home? Contact the Oklahoma nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Rogers County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Claremore.
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