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This long-term care facility is a 118-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating center providing services to residents of Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha County, Wisconsin. The "for profit" home is located at:
10330 Prairie Ridge Blvd
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin 53158
(262) 612-2800
Grande Prairie Health and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Grande Prairie Health and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes Alzheimer’s/dementia care, memory care, long-term care, and rehabilitative care, including physical, speech and occupational therapies.
The federal government and the state of Wisconsin are authorized to penalize any nursing home with monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services when the facility has been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Grande Prairie Health and Rehabilitation Center for $349,275 on November 23, 2016, citing substandard care. The nursing home also received twenty complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the Wisconsin Department of Health Services - Residential Care Website.
Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites including the Wisconsin 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues and four out of five stars for quality measures.
According to investigators, the facility “did not ensure processes were carried out to ensure the advance directive planning wishes for [four residents] were accurately reflected in their medical records. Additionally, the staff was not able to state the steps taken to verify code status based upon facility policy and procedure.”
In one incident, the “Emergency Care Do Not Resuscitate Form (DNR) located in [the resident’s] medical record was last signed in 2014 by [the resident, despite the resident] having a legal guardian since 1997.” In another incident, a different resident’s “medical chart contained no advance directive form” nor did the facility have a third resident “sign their own code status forms despite [that resident] being their own decision maker.” The staff never maintained proper accurate documentation for a fourth resident’s advance directives.
The nursing home “did not ensure that [one resident] with a pressure injury received the necessary treatment and services consistent with professional standards of practice to promote healing and prevent new pressure ulcers from developing.”
This investigation involved a resident who was admitted to the nursing home with a DTI (Deep Tissue Injury) “to the left heel. The facility did not provide pressure redistribution to the left heel to promote healing of the DTI and prevent new pressure injuries from developing.”
The facility “did not provide appropriate treatment and services” for one resident with behaviors that “escalated in the Physician was notified. New medication orders were obtained.”
Even though “the Physician was notified, and medications were changed when [the resident’s] behaviors increased on February 7, 2018, the facility did not reevaluate the effectiveness of the non-pharmacological interventions on [the resident’s] Plan of Care.” Additionally, the facility “did not review and revise/make adjustments to the Plan of Care to meet the resident’s behavioral health needs.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while residing at Grande Prairie Health and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Wisconsin nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Kenosha County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Pleasant Prairie.
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Sources:
Attorney Gerald Bekkerman
Licensed in Wisconsin
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home