Do you suspect that your loved one is being mistreated while residing in a Fairfield County nursing facility? Were you concerned that their facility-acquired bedsores or injuries from a fall could have been prevented had the staff followed the established protocols? If so, contact the Ohio Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention.
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This nursing center is a "for profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio. The 180-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
957 Becks Knob Road
Lancaster, Ohio 43130
(740) 654-2634
Crestview Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Services
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Crestview Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Services offers other services. These services include aquatic therapy, skilled rehabilitation, dietary care, and restorative care including occupational, physical and speech therapies.
Ohio and federal government agencies have the legal responsibility of monitoring every nursing home and imposing monetary fines or denying reimbursement payments through Medicare if investigators identify serious violations and deficiencies.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Crestview Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Services, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $17,154 fine on January 05, 2018, and a $6,500 fine on November 16, 2017, for a total of $23,654.
The nursing home also received thirteen 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.
The state of Ohio 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
According to investigators, “the facility failed to ensure [a resident’s] personal alarm (alarm device that gives an audible signal) was properly functioning, resulting in an avoidable fall. The facility also failed to use two staff assist with a transfer for [another resident] resulting in a laceration requiring sutures.”
Additionally, “the facility failed to serve [a third resident] beverages in a Physician ordered therapeutic cup. Actual harm occurred when [the first resident] who is dependent on two staff members for transfers and was coded as being non-ambulatory, fell and her personal alarm failed to sound when she attempted to self-ambulate.”
This deficient practice resulted in injuries “requiring hospitalization and surgical repair.” Additional harm occurred when the second resident “was transferred with one staff, resulting in a leg laceration requiring a visit to the hospital, stitches to close the wound and ongoing dressing changes in antibiotics.”
Actual harm occurred to the third resident when they were served “hot coffee in a regular cup which caused the resident to spill the hot coffee on her right hip, resulting in a second-degree burn.
The nursing home “failed to ensure soiled linen was transported [to] prevent the spread of infection.” This deficient practice “had the potential to affect all one hundred fifty-three residents residing in the facility.”
State surveyors observed in State-Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) “carrying soiled bed linens from a resident room into the hallway of the facility. The soiled linen was not observed contained in any type of bag or safety barrier” which could increase the potential risk of spreading infection throughout the facility.
The facility “failed to provide post-fall care to [a resident] according to Physician’s orders.” A review of the resident’s records revealed that the resident had a fallen sustained a hematoma to the right breast. The resident received a Physician’s orders for “warm compresses to the right breast hematoma four times a day until resolved.”
However, when the investigators reviewed the resident’s Treatment Administration Record, it was revealed that “the resident did not get warm compresses as ordered. The warm compresses were not documented as completed” and numerous times between 6:00 AM on August 1, 2018, through the afternoon of August 9, 2018. At that time, the resident was observed to have “a large grape -sized hematoma to the right breast [and] was unable to communicate other than shaking her head” when asked if the injury was still sore.
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Crestview Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Services? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Fairfield County victims of abuse and neglect in all Ohio areas including Lancaster.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home