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This Medicare/Medicaid-approved long-term care (LTC) center is a 70-certified bed "for profit" Home providing services to residents of Dickson and Dickson County, Tennessee. The facility is located at:
901 N. Charlotte
Dickson, Tennessee, 37055
(615) 446-5171
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Dickson Health and Rehabilitation Center offers:
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 three years, the government has not impose any monetary fines against Dickson Health and Rehabilitation Center. However, the nursing facility did receive three formally filed complaints due to substandard care. Additional documentation about fines and penalties can be found on the Tennessee Department of Health Nursing Home Reporting Website concerning this nursing facility.
The state of Tennessee regularly updates their long-term care home database system with complete details of all dangerous hazards, safety concerns, health violations, incident inquiries, opened investigations, and filed complaints. The search results can be found on numerous online sites including the TN Department of Public Health and Medicare.gov.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures. The Dickson County neglect attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center have found serious deficiencies and safety concerns at Dickson Health and Rehabilitation Center that include:
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated October 11, 2017, a state investigator noted the nursing home's failure to “ensure practices to prevent the potential spread of infection were maintained by failing to ensure isolation signage on the doors of three of six residents sampled for review in isolation.” The surveyor said that one of eight Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) staff members “failed to wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for a [resident] in isolation.” Also, one of six Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) staff nurses “failed to ensure practices to prevent the potential spread of infection were maintained during medication pass observations.”
The investigators interviewed the facility Director of Nursing who confirmed that it is expected of the nurses when changing gloves that they wash hands “between administering eyedrops, nasal spray, and inhaler.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated October 11, 2017, the state investigators documented that the nursing home had failed to “ensure the environment was free from accident hazards of unsecured razors in one of three (East Common Shower Room) common shower rooms and chemicals in one of thirty-five residents’ rooms.”
The survey team observed the East Hall common shower room on October 9, 2017, at multiple times that “revealed an unlocked shower room with a razor in a locked cabinet.” The surveyors interviewed a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who was “shown the unlocked shower door and the cabinet and was asked if the shower doors were supposed to remain locked at all times.” The LPN replied, “Yes.” The LPN also confirmed that there should not be unsecured razors in the shower room.
The surveyors observed a resident’s room that revealed “a container of bleach wipes on the bedside chest.” As a part of the investigation, the surveyors interviewed the facility Director of Nursing who confirmed that it was unacceptable “to have bleach wipes in a resident’s room.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated July 20, 2016, the state survey team documented that the Nursing Home had failed to “follow physician’s orders for wound care” for one of three residents with pressure ulcers. The investigative team reviewed a physician’s orders documented June 1, 2016, that instructed the nursing staff to cleanse the resident’s large deep tissue injury to the sacrum with normal saline and to “Pat dry, apply collagen to wound bed and cover with bordered gauze daily.” The nursing staff was also supposed to monitor for signs and symptoms of “infections one time a day for deep tissue injury.”
However, when the survey team reviewed the resident’s Treatment Administration Record (TAR), there was “no documentation the wound care was performed” during the month on the 8th and 11th “as ordered.” Further investigation included a review of a resident’s “unhealed pressure ulcers” including “Stage III pressure ulcers that were present on readmission to the facility.” That resident’s TAR revealed “no documentation that the wound care was performed” during that month on the 4th, 5th, 7th, and 11th as ordered.
The investigative team interviewed the Unit Manager who was asked: “where wound care was documented.” The Unit Manager confirmed that “if there are blanks, then in nursing, if it is not documented, that is not done.” The surveyors interviewed the facility Director of Nursing who confirmed that if the documentation is not completed, “it is not done.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated July 20, 2016, a state investigator noted the nursing home's failure to “ensure practices to prevent the potential spread of infection and cross-contamination were maintained.” This deficient practice was evidenced by the facility’s failure to “ensure the use of appropriate contact precautions during suspected cases” of scabies for forty-five residents.
The Nursing Home also failed to “track the rashes and treatment for scabies in the monthly infection control surveillance program for one of three months reviewed,” and one of four Licensed Practical Nurses failed to wash a nebulizer medication chamber while administering nebulizer treatment to a resident.
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated January 26, 2017, the state investigators documented that the nursing home had failed “one of ten sampled residents at the facility.” The incident involved a resident “admitted under the care of hospice” who “expired at the facility on December 13, 2016.”
The resident’s admission orders showed a “start date of November 1, 2016.” However, after a review of the resident’s Medication Administration Record (MAR), it was shown that the “first dose [of the physician’s ordered medication] was administered on November 12, 2016. A Nurses’ Note dated November 1, 2016, documented [that Truvada, an infection controlling medication prescribed to slow the progress of disease and prolong life] had not arrived, pending hospice coverage.”
Further review showed that on November 6, 2016 Nursing Note documents reveal that the medication was still not available. The investigative team interviewed the Director of Nursing who verified that it is the facility’s responsibility to ensure that the medication is available and if not, should “contact the pharmacy, contact hospice, should have the medication within two hours.”
The Director also stated that “if they cannot get medication, they need to notify me.” The surveyor stated that the nursing home “failed to ensure that residents receive the necessary medication as ordered.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated June 24, 2015, the state investigators documented that the facility had failed to “ensure skin assessments and administration of Liquid Protein were documented as ordered for one of three residents” with pressure ulcers.
The surveyors reviewed the Nursing: Weekly Skin Evaluation Form that revealed that “there was no documented skin assessment [for the resident] for the week of March 23, 2015.” Additionally, a review of the Nursing: Weekly Skin Condition Report (Pressure and Non-Pressure Combined) Form “revealed there was no weekly skin condition report done for the weeks of March 30, 2015, and April 6, 2015.”
The investigators interviewed the Director of Nursing who confirmed that “skin assessment should be documented weekly.” The Director also confirmed that “Liquid Gold should have been documented in April” but was not.
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated June 24, 2015, the state survey team noted that the nursing home had failed to “ensure physician’s orders were signed and dated for … residents” and the Stage II review. The investigators reviewed a physician’s telephone orders dated April 29, 2015, that shows insulin is to be administered to a resident based on a sliding-scale of blood sugar results. However, “this order was not signed or dated by the physician.”
The surveyors interviewed the facility Director of Nursing who confirmed that the resident “had orders when he came back from the hospital” to receive three units, but the order was changed by verbal order to administer two units of insulin. The Director confirmed that “the nurse did not print it out, so it never got signed by the doctor.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated June 24, 2015, a surveyor noted the nursing home's failure to “ensure practices to prevent the spread of infection were maintained when one of three (Registered Nurse (RN)) nurses administering medications failed to disinfect equipment between residents and failed to perform hand hygiene.” The surveyors also documented that three Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and one Registered Nurse (RN) staff members failed to perform hand hygiene to prevent the spread of infection or handled food barehanded during dining.”
The state investigators interviewed the Director of Nursing who confirmed that the facility “would expect an employee to wash their hands after picking something up off the floor” and touching food barehanded. The Director also confirmed that “an employee should wash hands after touching items in the environment and touching residents.”
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Attorney Cameron Jehl
Licensed in Tennessee
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