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Clear Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Mint Hill and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The 120-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
10506 Clear Creek Commerce Drive
Mint Hill, North Carolina 28227
(704) 545-2377
Clear Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Clear Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $133,825 for substandard care
State and federal nursing home agency investigators are duty-bound for monitoring every nursing home. These agencies can levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators identify serious violations of nursing home regulations and rules. In some cases, the nursing home receives multiple penalties if surveyors find severe violations that harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Clear Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for $133,825 on April 18, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received six 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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The state of North Carolina 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 one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues, and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to provide the appropriately sized wheelchair for proper body alignment for [one resident] who required assistance with positioning.” The resident’s Occupational Therapy Discharge Summary revealed that the resident “received an assessment to determine a seating system to increase comfort, provide safety, and decrease educated behaviors.”
The nursing home was to change the resident’s wheelchair “to a brand-specific tilt chair with a 4-quadrant gel cushion.” The investigation involved a resident who was assessed with “short-term and long-term memory problems.”
The state investigators observed the resident on April 15, 2018, “seated in a wheelchair on a pommel cushion.” The resident’s “toe tips reached the floor. The wheelchair did not contain leg rests.” The resident “moved both legs, knee to chest.” Multiple observations were made of the resident on the same day where “both legs [were] dangling off the floor.”
The surveyors noted that the resident remained seated on the pommel cushion the following day. The resident’s Nurse Aide revealed that the resident “used a wheelchair and pommel cushion every day, when out of bed.” The Aide explained that the resident “requires total assistance with locomotion and moved her legs frequently over the center of the pommel cushion.”
The investigators interviewed a nurse who reported that “ she was not aware of another tilt chair with a 4-quadrant gel cushion” that should be used instead. The Rehabilitation Director revealed that the resident “received a discharge from therapy with the direction to use a brand-specific tilt chair with a 4-quadrant gel cushion.”
When the Rehabilitation Director observed the resident, the Director announced that “the wheelchair was not the correct height for [the resident].” The Rehabilitation Director explained that “the pommel cushion should not overlap the edge of the wheelchair [and suggested that] the hospice staff might have switched out the chairs.”
The Director of Nursing revealed that the resident “should be properly positioned and could not provide a reason why the recommended chair and cushion was not used.” The Hospice Nurse explained that “hospice relied on the facility staff to assess positioning needs, such as the wheelchair height in question, since [the resident] was usually in bed during hospice visits.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Clear Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation 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 Mint Hill.
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Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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