There are significant problems involving mistreatment occurring in nursing facilities nationwide. Typically, a lack of quality care often results from untrained nursing staff, minimal supervision, or insufficient staffing members on each shift. In these incidents, the patient’s needs are often ignored. This neglect can cause broken bones due to falling or create preventable bedsores.
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This long-term care home is a "for profit" 130-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Beloit and Rock County, Wisconsin. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
1905 W Hart Rd
Beloit, Wisconsin 53511
(608) 365-2554
Green Knolls at Beloit Care Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Green Knolls at Beloit Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes postoperative care, palliative care, infusion therapy, digestive disease support, cancer recovery, renal disease services, respiratory services, and long-term care.
Both the state of Wisconsin and federal agencies penalize nursing homes by denying reimbursement payments from Medicare or imposing monetary fines anytime the facility is cited for a serious violation of established regulations and rules that harm or could harm residents.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Green Knolls at Beloit Care Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $31,249 fine on March 09, 2017, and a $33,411 fine on September 19, 2016, for a total of $64,660. During this time, Medicare denied payment on March 09, 2017, due to a lack of quality care.
This nursing home also received seventeen complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Wisconsin Department of Health Services - Residential Care Website.
To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Wisconsin 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 two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
According to the state surveyors, “the facility did not ensure that the services provided by nursing personnel met the professional standards of quality.” The investigation involved a resident who “had an unwitnessed fall and complained of head and hip pain.”
The resident “had a large bump on the front of her for head and also on the back of her head.” Two Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) assess the resident even though and Registered Nurse (RN) was in the facility. The resident “had a pillow placed under her head by a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) for comfort. The local non-emergency ambulance service was called to transport [the resident] to the hospital.”
The survey team asked the Director of Nursing if the Registered Nurse “should have been consulted for an assessment” after the resident suffered an injury to the head. The Director replied, “Yes, right away” indicating that the RN was in the building and that they [the Director] had been called.
The nursing home “did not ensure all alleged violations involving abuse, neglect or mistreatment are reported immediately, or not later than twenty-four hours after the event to the Administrator the facility and other officials including the State survey agency.”
The investigation involved three residents who “reported an allegation regarding [a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)] on August 24, 2018.” This “allegation was not reported to the State agency.” In one incident, the survey team interviewed a resident regarding the facility staff who indicated “there is one CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) that [she] and her roommate reported as being very rough and someone in another room reported this CNA as well.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect or abuse while living at Green Knolls at Beloit Care Center? Contact the Wisconsin nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Rock County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Beloit.
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Sources:
Attorney Gerald Bekkerman
Licensed in Wisconsin
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home