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This nursing center is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Chandler and Maricopa County, Arizona. The 120-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
1750 West Frye Road
Chandler, Arizona 85224
(480) 899-0641
Desert Cove Nursing Facility
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Desert Cove Nursing Facility 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.
Fined $9,753 for substandard care
The investigators for the state and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal responsibility of penalizing any facility that has violated rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. These penalties often include monetary fines and denying payment of Medicare services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Desert Cove Nursing Facility for $9,753 on January 30, 2018, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received five complaints and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Arizona Adult Protective Services Website.
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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Arizona Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
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 that the nursing home “failed to ensure one resident was free from verbal abuse by a staff member. The deficient practice could result in other residents being verbally abused.”
The state investigators reviewed the facility’s investigative report that revealed at approximately 5:20 PM one evening, the resident “reported to the Assistant Director of Nursing that she felt verbally abused by a Certified Nursing Assistant who was caring for her that evening.” The resident stated that she called “the CNA a [***] when she was told that she would need to wait for care. The CNA answered the resident by stating that if she needed to see an [***], all she needed to do was look in the mirror.”
The report included a CNA was working with another staff member who “was placed on suspension pending the investigation. The report also included the resident was alert and oriented to time, place, and person.” The document indicates that the CNA's “employment was terminated after completion of the investigation.”
The CNA provided a written statement concerning the incident and verified that the resident had called her an inappropriate word. The CNA stated that she responded by saying, “if you look in the mirror you will see the same thing.”
A written statement by another staff member indicated that the resident was wet, and she and the terminated CNA answered the resident’s call light. The staff member said that the resident called the staff member an inappropriate word, “she immediately went and reported it to the nurse and the Assistant Director of Nursing.”
The second employee stated that “she did not hear a response from the CNA [but said that] she felt very uncomfortable when the resident called the CNA a name.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Desert Cove Nursing Facility? Contact the Arizona nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Maricopa County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Chandler.
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Sources:
Attorney James Morgan
Licensed in Arizona
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home