Relocating an elderly loved one into a nursing facility is often the toughest decision a family can make. Many times, the family will perform extensive research in the hopes of finding the most comfortable and safest environment. Unfortunately, the incident rate involving mistreatment occurring in nursing homes throughout Virginia has risen significantly over the last few years.
If your loved one was harmed while living in an Isle of Wight County nursing facility, contact the Virginia Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation to recover your damages.
This long-term care facility is a 114-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating center providing services to residents of Windsor and Isle Of Wight County, Virginia. The "for-profit" home is located at:
23352 Courthouse Highway
Windsor, Virginia 23487
(757) 242-4770
Consulate Health Care of Windsor
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Consulate Health Care of Windsor offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, assisted and independent living options, medically-complex care, respiratory care, bariatric care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $57,083 for substandard care
The investigators working for the state and federal government are legally authorized to impose monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services if a nursing facility has been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Consulate Health Care of Windsor for $57,083 on October 26, 2017, citing substandard care. The nursing home received thirty-three complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Virginia Adult Protective Services (APS) Website.
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The state of Virginia and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all deficiencies, citations, and 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, one out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to operational and procedures for abuse screening [involving for employees] to assure prevention of abuse for residents. Specifically, the facility staff failed to complete criminal background checks for four of twenty-five employees according to the facility policy.”
The state investigators reviewed the employee records. “For employees did not include criminal background checks per the facility policy.” This included in Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who “worked approximately one month from June 6, 2016, through July 3, 2016, (termination date), with no criminal background check performed upon the re-hire date and during orientation.”
The facility “failed to report and investigate an alleged abuse violation and thoroughly investigate injuries of unknown origin for [two residents].” Specifically, “the facility staff failed to report and investigate an alleged abuse violation for [a resident], and the facility failed to thoroughly investigate an injury of unknown origin for [another resident].”
The state investigative team conducted a group interview where one resident stated “more than one man was coming into my room and Aides laughed when they were taken out of my room. I did not think it was funny.” The resident stated that “she complained to the staff and feels no one has addressed her concerns.”
Social Services was made aware that the resident is unhappy with the room at this time. Social Services spoke with the resident who was made her aware of an open bed. That the resident requested to see the new room. After reviewing the new room, the resident returned to the office and stated she would rather wait and does not want social services to help.”
Social services said that the resident would “rather speak to someone else.” The note “did not address any potential reasons for the resident’s reasons to request another room.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Consulate Health Care of Windsor? Contact the Virginia nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Isle Of Wight County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Windsor.
Our legal team invites you to discuss your case with us today through an initial, free claim consultation. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will not owe us anything until after we have secured a monetary recovery for your family.
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