Every staff member working in a nursing facility has a legal and ethical responsibility to provide each resident with the highest level of care according to established standards of quality. Unfortunately, many nursing facilities do not follow established procedures and protocols that prevent injuries, accidents, and the development of life-threatening pressure wounds.
If you suspect that your loved one was victimized through neglect or abuse while living in a Muskogee County nursing facility, the Oklahoma Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys can help. Let our team of lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation for your damages.
This long-term care home is a 111-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Warner and Muskogee County, Oklahoma. The "for profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
Highway 64 East
Warner, Oklahoma 74469
(918) 463-5143
Countryside Estates Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Countryside Estates Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes ventilator care, respiratory care, and antibiotic IV (intravenous) therapy.
Federal government nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home with a denied payment for Medicare services or monetary fine when the facility has been cited for serious violations of regulations and rules.
Within the last thirty-six months, investigators imposed three monetary penalties against Countryside Estates Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $272,572 fine on May 15, 2018, a $108,223 fine on July 26, 2017, and a $23,437 fine on February 28, 2017, for a total of $404,232.
This nursing facility also received eight complaints and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional documentation about fines and penalties can be found on the Oklahoma Long Term Care Provider Inspection Search Website.
The federal government and Oklahoma Department of Public Health website update comprehensive information containing historical details of all 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 one out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state investigators, “a past non-compliance Immediate Jeopardy situation was determined to exist due to the facility’s failure to provide care to maintain the resident’s highest level of well-being.” The “facility failed to use correct procedures to initiate ventilator support.”
The facility also “failed to ensure the resident’s ventilator was set up and initiated as ordered for the resident.” The resident was “returned from the hospital by ambulance and was placed on a ventilator. The nurse had powered the ventilator.
However, “the ventilation had not been initiated. The staff left the room. Approximately ten minutes later, two nurses returned to the room and found the resident unresponsive and initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).”
It was determined that the resident “was without ventilation for approximately ten minutes. The resident was transported to the hospital via ambulance and expired.” The investigators determined that a past non-compliance Immediate Jeopardy situation occurred and reported it to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
Documentation shows that the “nurse involved was immediately suspended for three days. The report documented the nurse would be allowed to return to work after she had completed ventilator training with the respiratory therapist. The report documented the nurse would be placed on probation for ninety days and would [be randomly monitored] twice weekly for ninety days [regarding] ventilator compliance.”
The nursing home “failed to provide the necessary supervision to prevent accidents.” The facility failed to “provide the nutrition to prevent falls for [two residents]” and failed to “complete a thorough investigation for falls [involving three residents].
The nursing home failed to “implement resident specific interventions to prevent falls” and failed to “monitor the effectiveness of interventions to make changes as necessary for [two residents].” As a result, one resident “sustained multiple falls including a fall resulting in a hip fracture which required surgical repair.” The documentation identified ten residents “who had fallen [at the facility] in the past six months.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury or died prematurely while living at Countryside Estates Nursing Center? Contact the Oklahoma nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Muskogee County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Warner.
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