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This center is a 185-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of Montgomery and Montgomery County, Alabama. The "for-profit" long-term care home is located at:
1837 Upper Wetumpka Road
Montgomery, Alabama 36107
(334) 264-8416
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Crowne Health Care of Montgomery offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound 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.
Alabama and federal agencies are duty-bound to monitor every nursing home and levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators identify serious violations of nursing home regulations and rules. In some cases, the nursing home receives multiple penalties if surveyors find severe violations that harmed or could have harmed a resident.
The nursing home received two complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Alabama Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Alabama 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 two out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues, and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure an open box of medical supplies and medicines were not left unattended in [a resident’s] room.” The investigation involved a severely cognitively impaired resident with “short-term and long-term memory problems.”
At 8:00 AM, the surveyor went into the resident’s room and observed an open box, “which contained medical supplies, on the floor. The brown paper box was sitting on the floor by [the resident’s] bed that was approximately one foot high by one foot wide and contained two suction catheters and tubing, seven bottles of normal saline, twenty-two bandages of 4 x 4, six tubes of Adapt paste, four bottles of Med Honey, seventeen bandages, syringes, tubing, and more bandages.”
Nearly three hours later, “the box was still sitting on the floor by the resident’s bed.” A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) “walked in the resident’s room and the surveyor asked what was in the box.” The LPN said that “it was all of her supplies that hospice brought. The surveyor asked what they were there for.” The LPN stated that they were treatment supplies that were not supposed to be there but “put in the closet.”
The LPN confirmed that there was a danger with the box sitting there, indicating that “someone could trip over it, and it really should not be sitting on the floor.” The survey team asked the Registered Nurse (RN) Supervisor “if the facility was aware that Hospice had been leaving supplies in the resident’s room.” The RN stated that “the box has been sitting there for several months.” The surveyor asked, “do you think the box sitting there could be a danger?” The RN replied, “Yes, someone, including residents, could trip over it and fall.”
The RN Supervisor further stated that “what if the resident’s tube feeding came out and got all over the floor or the ostomy bag burst open?” The Supervisor indicated that “a visitor could go in with a grandchild [who could] get into the supplies.” When asked “who is responsible for the medical supplies sitting on the floor?” the RN Supervisor stated, “ultimately, it is me, I should have moved them.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Crowne Health Care of Montgomery? Contact the Alabama nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Montgomery County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Montgomery.
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Sources:
Attorney Brian Murphy
Licensed in Alabama
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home