Many families are overwhelmed when they make the ultimate decision to place a loved one in a nursing home to ensure the quality of their life is maximized. They believe that they will receive the best care in a compassionate, respected, and safe environment. Unfortunately, not all members of the nursing team will uphold their responsibility and provide care that meets the resident’s needs.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Davidson County nursing facility, contact the Tennessee Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal help. Our team of abuse prevention lawyers can work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages. Let us begin working on your case today.
This long-term care home is a "non-profit" 107-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. The Medicare-participating facility is located at:
504 Elmington Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee 37205
(615) 269-4200
The Health Center at Richland Place
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, The Health Center at Richland Place offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, assisted and independent living options, medically-complex care, respiratory care, bariatric 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.
The investigators and surveyors for Medicare and the state of Tennessee have the legal authority to impose monetary fines are denied payment for Medicare services any time a nursing home is cited for serious violations of regulations and rules.
This nursing home received three complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Tennessee Adult Protective Services Website.
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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Tennessee 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 two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, four out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure residents had adequate supervision to prevent falls for [one resident] reviewed for falls.” The investigation involved a severely, cognitively impaired resident who “requires extensive assistance of one person for transfers, ambulation, dressing, eating, grooming, and bathing.” The resident had limited functionality of the upper extremities.
The resident was admitted to the facility with a left humerus and ulna fracture. These injuries “would be conservatively managed.” The resident also had “a small right convexity subdural hematoma (collection of blood in the brain on the top right side of the head) and a large left superior convexity subdural hematoma.”
The resident’s Care Plan indicated that the patient “refuses care, [was] combative, agitated, [with] disorganized thoughts.” The resident “had a problem of being at risk for orthopedic complications related to a fall with fractures, a refusal to wear a C-collar (cervical collar), and noncompliant with weight-bearing status from the humerus and ulna fracture.” A review of the Provider Progress Notes indicated that the resident was experiencing nausea without vomiting and “did not have any recent falls.”
The staff initiated neurological checks because “she does have a history of a recently new subdural hematoma.” A review of the Post-Fall Initial Note revealed that the resident “was found lying on the floor in a fetal position in the activities room.”
The document indicated that “she had been walking in the room unassisted.” After the fall, the resident experienced pain and an x-ray revealed a Right Fracture Femur. The patient was sent to the emergency room for an evaluation.
After receiving treatment, the resident was transferred from the hospital to hospice, where she expired. The State Medical Examiner indicated on the death certificate that the cause of death was an “acute right femur fracture [with a] contributing cause [of a] chronic left subdural hematoma, and the death was accidental.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while residing at The Health Center at Richland Place? Contact the Tennessee nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Davidson County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Nashville.
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Sources:
Attorney Cameron Jehl
Licensed in Tennessee
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home