Many of the problems associated with mistreatment occurring in assisted-living facilities in nursing homes are the result of a lack of trained personnel, minimal supervision, or understaffing. In these incidents, the needs of the residents are often ignored; they suffer serious injuries from a fall or develop life-threatening bedsores. Other residents wander away from the facility due to a lack of supervision, as mentioned in the citation below.
If your loved one was assaulted, abused, mistreated, or neglected while residing in a Baldwin County nursing facility, contact the Alabama nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This facility is a 154-certified bed "for-profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Foley and Baldwin County, Alabama. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
1701 North Alston Street
Foley, Alabama 36535
(251) 943-2781
Diversicare of Foley Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Diversicare of Foley Nursing Center 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 $395,836 for substandard care
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.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Diversicare of Foley Nursing Center for $395,836 on August 04, 2018, citing substandard care. 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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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Alabama long-term care home from various online publically available sources, including the Department of Public Health website and Medicare.gov.
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 that two residents “were free from abuse perpetrated by [two other residents] who reside on the secured Alzheimer’s Care Unit (Dementia Unit) of the facility.”
On April 28, 2018, one abusive resident “was observed to willfully push [one of the assaulted residents] down, causing the resident to fall, cry, and scrape the side of his/her back. Four days later, on May 2, 2018, staff observed [the same abusive resident slap another assaulted resident].” During the first shift on May 25, 2018, the staff noted that the allegedly abusive resident continued to target the resident who had been slapped.
The assaulting resident yelled at the resident who was slapped, pushed their face “into a wall, and tried to slam a door on the resident. After this incident, the staff placed [the aggressive resident] on one-on-one staff supervision. However, while not being supervised by staff, later in the day on May 25, 2018, during the second shift, [the abusive resident] forcibly pushed another resident] down, causing this resident to fall.”
Again, on June 26, 2018, the abusive resident and the resident who was slapped “were observed by staff to be pushing each other back and forth and both residents fell onto the floor.” On another occasion, a second abusivev resident “was observed by staff to forcefully and intentionally push [another resident] down to the floor, which rendered [this resident] unconscious.”
These “deficient practices affected [both injured residents], two of six sample residents reviewed for abuse, and placed these residents in Immediate Jeopardy for serious injury, harm, or death. This failure also had the potential to affect the remaining twenty-six residents who resided in the facility’s Alzheimer’s Care Unit.”
Were you the victim of physical harm, aggression, mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while you lived at Diversicare of Foley Nursing Center? Contact the Alabama nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Baldwin County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Foley.
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Sources:
Attorney Brian Murphy
Licensed in Alabama
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home