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 Lake County nursing facility, contact the California Nursing Home Law Center 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 nursing facility is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Lakeport and Lake County, California. The 99-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
1291 Craig Avenue
Lakeport, California 95453
(707) 263-6382
Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care, and provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $10,618 for substandard care
State surveyors and federal investigators can penalize nursing homes by denying payment for Medicare services or imposing monetary fines if the facility has been cited for a serious violation of a regulation or rule that harmed or could have harmed residents.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare Nursing Center for $10,618 on March 29, 2019, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on March 29, 2019, due to a lack of quality care.
This nursing facility received eleven complaints and self-reported fifteen serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites, including the California Department of Public Health 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, one out of five stars for staffing issues, and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home "did not provide adequate supervision for [a resident]. The lack of supervision resulted in [the resident] entering the room of [another resident and hitting that resident] in the arm.” The “altercation had the potential to cause emotional distress to [the assaulted resident] and have an adverse effect on a sense of well-being and safety.”
The aggressive resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) indicates that the resident never understands and is never understood, and is “severely impaired with disorganized thinking and inattention, history of physical behavior directed toward others, easily annoyed, rejects care, experiences hallucinations, experiences delusions, and wanders.”
The state investigators interviewed the facility Administrator who stated that the resident was “tired of the staff because she was constantly moving around the facility.” The Administrator stated that the resident “usually slept through the night [saying that] he did not know if [the resident] had a sitter at the time of the incident,” where she assaulted another resident.
The investigators interviewed the Activity Director, who stated that “she responded to a call for help from [the injured resident] at approximately 1:30 PM. The Activity Director stated that when she entered [the assaulted resident’s room, the aggressive resident] was pulling on the other resident’s blanket and hitting the other resident in the left arm.”
The assaulted resident “was lying on top of his bed. The Activity Director stated she was able to redirect [the wandering resident] out of the other resident’s room.” The aggressive wandering resident “did not have a one-on-one sitter with her.”
The assaulted resident stated that he was not hurt by the assault, saying that the female resident was harmless. The male resident stated that “there was no need to be concerned about the incident [saying that the aggressive female resident] did not have a staff person with her but that staff came to the room as soon as he called for help.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare Nursing Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Lake County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Lakeport.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home