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This nursing home is a Medicare and Medicaid-participating "for-profit" center providing care and services to residents of Fairmont and Marion County, West Virginia. The 120-certified bed nursing facility is located at:
130 Kaufman Drive
Fairmont, West Virginia 26554
(304) 363-5633
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Fairmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, post-acute surfaces, respite care, palliative care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Federal and state investigators can penalize any nursing home that has violated rules and regulations that resulted in harm or could have resulted in the harm of a resident. These penalties include imposing monetary fines and denying payment for Medicare services.
This nursing facility received two complaints over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of West Virginia and Medicare.com routinely update their comprehensive list of deficiencies online to reflect all 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, two out of five stars for staffing issues, and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to ensure the residents' environment remained as free of accident hazards as is possible. Electronic baseboard heaters in the main hallways had sharp corner edges where they were mangled."
The "main hallways on the North and South were utilized as main thoroughfares by residents." The deficient practice by the administration "had the potential to affect more than an isolated number of residents."
The "facility failed to ensure the necessary respiratory care and services [according to professional standards of practice], the resident's Care Plan and Physician's orders" were followed. A review of the resident's Nursing Note indicated "a change of condition note completed on January 26, 2019, at 11:03 AM."
The documentation shows that the resident had an oxygen saturation level, "recorded as 87.0%. The nurse recorded nursing observations, an evaluation, and recommendations [that] [are to decrease] oxygen saturation on 5.0 L of oxygen via nasal cannula."
On January 28, 2019, the resident's oxygen concentrator was observed by a Registered Nurse who found that "the resident's oxygen concentrator was set at 10.0 L instead of 5.0 L," as ordered by the Physician.
The resident stated that they have "a non-rebreather mask and, ‘you can't run it on anything less than 10.0 L of oxygen.'" The state surveyors reviewed information by the American Red Cross involving a non-rebreather mask. Their documentation indicates that the "victim inhales oxygen from the bag and [the] exhaled air escapes through flutter valves on the side of the mask. The common airflow rate for a non-rebreather mask is 10.0 to 15.0 L."
The nursing home "failed to ensure staff was competent to provide treatment and care for residents receiving [an] anti-coagulant medication. The facility failed to ensure [the appropriate] testing was obtained, according to the Physician's orders."
A Registered Nurse confirmed that International Normalized Ratio testing had not been performed on a resident on four separate occasions between December 21, 2018, and December 30, 2018.
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Fairmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the West Virginia nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Marion County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Fairmont.
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Sources:
Attorney Bob Daley
Licensed in West Virginia
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home