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This facility is a 34-certified bed "for profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Rockford and Mercer County, Ohio. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
201 Buckeye Street
Rockford, Ohio 45882
(419) 363-2193
Colonial Nursing Center of Rockford Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Colonial Nursing Center of Rockford Nursing Center offers other services. These services include dementia care, rehabilitative care including physical, occupational and speech therapies.
Both Ohio and the federal government can impose a monetary fine or deny payments through Medicare when a nursing facility has been found to violate established regulations and rules.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Colonial Nursing Center of Rockford Nursing Center for $69,679 on June 09, 2016, citing substandard care.
The nursing home also received fifteen complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
To be fully informed on the level of care nursing homes provide, families routinely research Medicare.gov and the Ohio Department of Public Health website database systems for a complete list of deficiencies, violations, and citations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and four out of five stars for quality measures.
According to investigators, “the facility failed to notify the Physician and responsible party when there were changes in the resident’s condition.” The surveyor’s reviewed a resident’s 14-day MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment that revealed the resident “was in a persistent vegetative state was totally dependent on staff for activities of daily living, always incontinent of bowel and bladder, and was short of breath.”
The resident was receiving food through a tube and had “no weight loss and no pressure ulcers. However, the Communication Form from the facility revealed the facility had been notified that “the resident had open wounds on the right side of his neck” from medical conditions in a condition that “was saturated and filthy.”
When the resident received treatment, the resident did experience “facial grimacing while the facility cleaned the area.” A review of the Emergency Medical Services run sheet dated October 26, 2017, documented that the resident was “sent to the emergency room” for complications.
Notes from the emergency room documented that “the wound was described as being malodorous, on the posterior (back) neck area, was 12.0 cm in length and required glue to repair the area.”
The facility Director of Nursing “verified no treatment was initiated until October 26, 2018, when the resident was sent to the emergency room.” She also “verified on return to the facility, [the resident’s] Physician was notified but had no documentation that the resident’s responsible party had been notified of the new open area.”
The nursing home “failed to assess, notify the Physician or monitor a skin wound when it was reported by [the hospital].
This [deficient practice by the nursing staff] resulted in actual harm in the skin wound when untreated, worsened, developing into a Stage III pressure ulcer (open sore that extends into the tissue and deep into skin and may expose fat) and required emergency room intervention.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while residing at Colonial Nursing Center of Rockford Nursing Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Mercer County victims of abuse and neglect in all Ohio areas including Rockford.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home