Many families have limited options on how to handle the care of a loved one who requires medical professionals in a skilled nursing environment. Typically, reputable nursing homes follow established procedures and protocols to ensure that every resident’s needs are met. Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs in some facilities in California.
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This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "non-profit" home providing services to residents of Hawthorne and Los Angeles County, California. The 88-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
11630 South Grevillea Ave.
Hawthorne, California 90250
(310) 679-9732
Hawthorne Healthcare and Wellness Centre
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Hawthorne Healthcare and Wellness Centre 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, brain injury rehab, cardiac conditioning care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Both the state of California and federal agencies are legally obligated to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators find that the nursing home seriously violated established nursing home regulations and rules.
This nursing facility received nineteen complaints and self-reported two 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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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the California Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
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 “failed to follow its policy for fall management, provide the necessary supervision, and implement resident’s Care Plans for fall preventions for [two residents, who were] assessed to be at a high risk for falls.”
This “deficient practice resulted in [both residents] falling, sustaining injuries that required a transfer to a General Acute Care Hospital, undergoing surgeries, and receiving strong narcotic pain medications.” One resident “sustained a right femur (thigh bone fracture) and had an ORIF surgery (the surgery to repair a broken bone with screws, plates, rods, or pins to hold the broken bones together).”
The second resident “had a right femur fracture and underwent a surgical repair with an intramedullary rod placement.” A review of the first resident’s Fall Risk Assessment scored the resident as and eleven where a total score of ten or more represent a high risk. The resident had “an unsteady gait (walking), was only able to stabilize with staff assistance and requires a one-person physical assist for transfers and utilized a wheelchair as a mobile device.”
The resident “did not have the capacity to understand and make decisions.” On September 13, 2018, the resident “was observed with a right lateral lower leg skin tear.” The document stated that the resident was asked, “how did she sustain the skin tear? However, the resident could not answer.”
On December 20, 2018, at 8:30 AM, the resident fell and “was assisted back to bed and observed with an internal rotation of the right leg.” Later that day, the resident was noted to have a shorter right leg than their left leg and was experiencing pain at a level of eight where ten is the worst pain.
A Licensed Vocational Nurse stated that residents “who had an unwitnessed fall” should be educated on wheelchair safety measures. However, the Director of Nursing stated that “the facility did not have a fall program.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Hawthorne Healthcare and Wellness Centre? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Los Angeles County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Hawthorne.
You will not be charged to discuss your case with our legal team during an initial, free case review. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means that you will owe us nothing until we have secured financial compensation on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home