Mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing facilities are often the result of the nursing staff or other caregivers not providing the resident care according to established standards of quality. Their inappropriate behavior often leads to harm, injury, or wrongful death. In other incidents, the victim is assaulted by other residents.
If your loved one was harmed while living in a Charlotte County nursing facility, contact the Florida nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers handle your case to ensure you receive monetary compensation. We will use the law to hold those responsible for causing the harm legally accountable.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Englewood and Charlotte County, Florida. The 120-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
1111 Drury Ln
Englewood, Florida 34224
(941) 474-9371
Englewood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Facility
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Englewood Healthcare and Rehabilitation 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 $70,549 for substandard care
Both the State of Florida and the federal government can impose a monetary fine or deny payments through Medicare when a nursing facility is found to violate established regulations and rules. The greater the monetary fine, the more serious the violation is that likely harmed or could have harmed one or more residents at the nursing home.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Englewood Healthcare And Rehabilitation Facility, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $65,728 fine on June 28, 2018, and a $4,821 fine on May 25, 2017, for a total of $70,549.
The nursing home received three complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Florida and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.
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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to follow infection control procedures consistent with currently accepted practices.” It was determined that “inadequate infection control practices put all residents at risk for the spread of infection.”
The surveyors observed two Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) in a resident’s room who “was on contact precautions for Clostridium difficile (C-diff, an easily transmitted infection in the resident’s stool).” One staff member stated that she “forgot to wash her hands when she left the room.”
The Registered Nurse (RN) was observed “administering medications to [the resident] while touching [the resident’s] tray table, handing the medication cup, and taking the empty cup back without wearing any personal protective equipment (PPE).”
The RN “left the room without washing her hands, threw the cups away on her medication cart, entered the room again, and dumped some liquid into [the resident’s] sink.”
The surveyors say that “she left the room again without washing her hands and entered [with] her medication cart to remove a piece of equipment. She then entered [another resident’s] room without washing her hands.”
The facility “failed to handle clean laundry in a sanitary manner to prevent contamination. The facility failed to consistently implement transmission-based precautions and limit the movement of [one resident] with a highly infectious disease.”
It was determined that “the facility failed to maintain infection control prevention during catheter care [for another resident and] failed to ensure [an agency nurse] administered medications [to] prevent cross-contamination and failed to ensure staff washed their hands when appropriate after direct contact with the [highly contagious] [resident] or contaminated personal items.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of harm, abuse, neglect, or mistreatment while residing at Englewood Healthcare And Rehabilitation Facility? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Charlotte County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Englewood.
Our law firm provides every potential client an initial free case consultation. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you do not owe us any money until we have received a monetary recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices concerning your financial compensation case will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home