Many of the 1.5 million residents in nursing facilities in the U.S. are victims of mistreatment. In some cases, the nursing staff neglects these patients, or caregivers, visitors, employees, and other residents abuse, sexually assault, or mistreat the patient.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Staunton City County nursing facility, contact the Virginia Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers handle your case to ensure your family is adequately financially compensated for your damages. Let us begin working on your case today.
This long-term care facility is a 170-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating center providing services to residents of Staunton and Staunton City County, Virginia. The "for-profit" home is located at:
512 Houston Street
Staunton, Virginia 24402
(540) 886-2335
Envoy of Staunton Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Envoy of Staunton Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, assisted and independent living options, medically-complex care, respiratory care, bariatric 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 $10,793 for substandard care
The federal government has the legal authority to penalize any nursing home that has violated rules and regulations that have harmed or could have harmed a nursing facility resident. These penalties include denial of payment for Medicare services are an imposed a monetary fine.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Envoy of Staunton Nursing Center for $10,793 on July 20, 2017, citing substandard care. The nursing home received seven complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Virginia Adult Protective Services (APS) Website.
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The state of Virginia 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 one 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 state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to provide supervision to prevent an accident resulting in harm for [one resident].” Specifically, the nursing home “failed to ensure handrails were in good repair on two of three units in the facility.”
Also, facility staff “failed to ensure the safe condition of handrails. Handrails had damaged areas which sharp exposed edges on the second and third floor living units.”
The Clinical Record and Nurse’s Note documented that “at approximately 6:36 AM, the resident went downstairs to the lobby, in which the resident does every day, and throughout the day, the resident went down this morning and went outside through the automatic sliding doors.” The document says that the resident “is independently mobile once assisted by [one-person] into her wheelchair, she uses a left-sided leg rest while up in the wheelchair due to post-CVA (stroke) though she does use the upper right lower extremity to wheel herself.”
However, this time, the wandering resident “lost control of her wheelchair when going outdoors and the wheelchair appeared to go down the sidewalk, which does have an incline and proceeded onto the blacktop approximately 10-15 feet before the wheelchair flipped over.” The resident “was assisted immediately by employees (several) coming into work that morning. After interviewing multiple staff members, it is known for sure that the resident was not outside at 6:30 AM, per staff, whom reported to work at this time [and] parking in the nearby parking lot which has a 100% view of the facility entrance where the resident was noted to have fallen.”
The staff arriving at the scene immediately phoned 911, and the resident was assessed “by several nurses.” Emergency Medical technicians arrived “within approximately five minutes and took over assessing.” The resident “was noted to have some abrasion/injuries to her face.” The doctor and ombudsman were notified of the incident.
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury, mistreatment, abuse, or died prematurely while living at Envoy of Staunton Nursing Center? Contact the Virginia nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Staunton City County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Staunton.
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