Never before in American history have so many senior citizens have entered their retirement years. The advancing age of this massive population has increased the need for additional beds in nursing homes and placed a significant demand on the number of Nurses and Nurse’s Aides required to meet their needs. Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs, and many facilities nationwide.
If your loved one was injured or died unexpectedly while living in a San Bernardino County nursing facility, contact the California Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation from recovering your monetary damages.
This long-term care home is a 59-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Yucaipa and San Bernardino County, California. The "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
35253 Avenue H
Yucaipa, California 92399
(909) 795-2476
NO WEBSITE
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Creekside Care Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
Fined $9,430 for substandard care
Both the state of California and federal agencies are legally obligated to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators find that the nursing home seriously violated established nursing home regulations and rules.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Creekside Care Center for $9,430 on June 02, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received twelve complaints and self-reported twelve serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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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 five out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to ensure that all staff implemented the facility’s policy and procedure regarding abuse and neglect reporting, when a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) was not reported to administration for frequently leaving her residents soaked in urine, often with brown rings, gesturing with her middle finger at a resident after engaging in a verbal altercation and then threatening to throw a candy dish at him.”
The state investigators determined that “this failure resulted in the CNA continuing to be employed and not performing her duties in a manner to prevent harm, such as possible skin breakdown from prolonged exposure to urine, and to engage in a verbal altercation that included obscene gestures and the threat of throwing objects at [a resident] without being removed from the facility immediately, placing other residents at risk for abuse.”
As a result, the investigators made an unannounced visit “to the facility to investigate a facility-reported incident of verbal abuse by [the CNA to the resident].” The Director of Nursing/Charge Nurse stated on the night of the incident that a Licensed Vocational Nurse “did not report anything to herself or the Administrator.”
The Director said that the resident “could be a handful at times – tantrums. He is pretty easy-going most of the time. He can be vocal cursing, but he apologizes after he calms down.” The Director denied that another resident “had ever spit at or threw objects at staff.”
A Licensed Vocational Nurse told the investigators that the CNA “was insubordinate, neglected patients, was confrontational with [one resident], and used derogatory hand gestures.” The nurse stated that “he heard yelling from [the resident’s] room where he was cursing and saying out loud that [the CNA] kept bumping his bed and waking him up.”
The nurse said that the CNA “was arguing with [the resident] saying, ‘you spit on me’, but [the resident] denied this.” The nurse offered to help get the resident up “to put him in the wheelchair to bring them out to the hall.” The CNA then went back to the resident’s room and “continued to argue with the resident.”
The nurse indicated that “I went into the room to find [the CNA] using her middle finger to flip off the resident, which agitated him further and he began to scream, ‘Get this b***h out of here,’ and held up his water pitcher [threatening] to use the water pitcher if [the CNA] did not leave.” The CNA then picked up a candy dish and threatened to throw it at the resident.
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury or died prematurely while living at Creekside Care Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent San Bernardino County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Yucaipa.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home