Mistreating senior citizens living in nursing homes is an unacceptable, reprehensible, and disgraceful action done by the hands of caregivers, visitors, and other patients. Many families relocate their loved ones into the nursing home believing that they will receive the highest level of care in a safe environment. Unfortunately, neglect and abuse are an all too common occurrence that leaves victims harmed, injured, or dead.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Duval County nursing facility, contact the Florida nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you are financially compensated for your monetary damages.
This facility is a "for-profit" 180-certified bed long term care center providing care and services to residents of Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating home is located at:
11565 Harts Rd
Jacksonville, Florida 32218
(904) 751-1834
Harts Harbor Health Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Harts Harbor Health Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound 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 $7,963 for substandard care
Both the federal government and the state of Florida have the legal responsibility to levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if a nursing home violates established rules and regulations that harm or could have harmed residents.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Harts Harbor Health Care Center for $7,963 on May 02, 2019, citing substandard care. The nursing home received two complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Florida long-term care home from various online publically available sources, including the Department of Public Health website and Medicare.gov.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including four out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues, and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home failed to provide treatment and care according to “professional standards by failing to provide appropriate urinary catheter care for [one resident] with a suprapubic catheter.”
The resident’s medical record indicated that the resident had a suprapubic urinary catheter and was seen by the Physician on October 26, 2018, “with cloudiness in his urine.” The Director of Clinical Services stated on November 14, 2018, that “she was unable to find any Physician’s orders [on the resident’s] suprapubic catheter.”
The Director confirmed that “if there were no orders, there would be nothing populated to the Medication Administration Record/Treatment Administration Record to direct care.” The Director also confirmed that “catheter care was not documented nine times [and that this] was not acceptable practice.”
The facility “failed to investigate and report an allegation of mistreatment, neglect, and abuse to the Administrator at the facility or his designee, conduct a thorough investigation and prohibit the alleged perpetrator from [having] access to the facility at the time the allegation was reported.”
The facility also “demonstrated a lack of action and commitment to protect [one resident] and other vulnerable residents from the possibility of continued abuse.” The Unit Manager said on August 22, 2016, that the resident “had a stage IV pressure ulcer on his left ischium measuring 2.0 cm x 4.0 cm x 1.8 cm. Currently, the facility was using a Wound VAC to treat the wound.” However, the Unit Manager stated that the last time the care was documented as being provided was on August 12, 2016, ten days earlier.
The survey team interviewed the resident who said that in mid-June, “there had been an incident with a male Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in which the CNA ripped his brief off and tore his skin on his buttocks and the back of his thighs.” The resident stated that the CNA “knew what happened during that time because he could feel how much force the CNA used when he pulled the brief from between his legs.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Harts Harbor Health Care Center? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Duval County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Jacksonville.
It is always free to discuss your case with our legal team. We provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will owe us nothing until we can secure a financial recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home