Mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing facilities are often the result of the nursing staff or other caregivers not providing the resident care according to established standards of quality. Their inappropriate behavior often leads to harm, injury, or wrongful death. In other incidents, the victim is assaulted by other residents.
If your loved one was harmed, abused or mistreated while living in a Franklin County nursing facility, contact the Ohio Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers handle your case to ensure you receive monetary compensation. We will use the law to hold those responsible for causing the harm legally accountable.
This nursing facility is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Dublin and Franklin County, Ohio. The 120-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
4075 West Dublin-Granville Road
Dublin, Ohio 43017
(614) 210-0541
Heartland of Dublin Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Heartland of Dublin Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long-term care.
Ohio nursing home regulators and federal inspectors have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home identified as violating rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. Typically, these penalties include monetary fines and denial for payment of medical services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Heartland of Dublin Nursing Center for $7,275 on August 10, 2017, citing substandard care.
This nursing home received ten complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Ohio Department of Health Complaint Website.
The state of Ohio and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all deficiencies, citations, and violations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that “the facility failed to implement their Abuse Policy by not thoroughly investigating an allegation of abuse.” This deficient practice affected one resident “reviewed for abuse. This [failure] had the potential to affect [ten residents] who resided on the State-tested Nurse Aide’s shift assignment on November 9, 2018.”
The facility-reported Incident form dated November 13, 2018, revealed that a resident’s sister had “reported to the Director of Nursing [the day before] that a [State-tested Nurse Aide had pulled the resident] up in bed on November 9, 2018, by grabbing him underneath his arms, and hurt her brother’s shoulder.”
The resident had reported that “on that day, he was admitted to the facility, November 9, 2018, he asked [the Aide] to reposition him in bed.” The resident alleged that the Aide “grabbed him underneath his arms and pulled him up in bed. He stated he had asked the [Aide] to help him, but the [Aide] refused.”
The resident indicated that “his shoulder started hurting immediately. Upon receiving the report of the alleged injury to [the resident], the Director of Nursing notified the Physician, and obtained [Physician’s orders].”
The Physician spent ninety minutes with the resident on November 11, 2018, with “no report of shoulder pain. The incident was alleged to have happened [two days earlier], and no report of pain or discomfort was made by [the resident] until his sister reported the alleged incident on November 12, 2018.”
The state surveyors noted that the Investigation Documentation dated November 13, 2018, “failed to show evidence that the facility did a thorough investigation of the incident. Statements were obtained from [the resident, his sister, and the Aide, along with an Occupational Therapist and Registered Nurse (RN)].”
Three other residents “were interviewed with standard abuse and safety questions. These results of the interviews were negative to abuse.” During an interview with the Administrator and Director of Nursing, it was confirmed that the three residents “were interviewed but were not part of the [Aide’s] work assignment. She also verified that ten residents on his assignment are cognitively confused.”
The Director and Administrator also confirmed that “none of the residents on [the Aide’s] assignment had been interviewed, and no skin assessment had been performed for the cognitively confused residents on his assignment during the investigation.”
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Heartland of Dublin Nursing Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Franklin County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Dublin.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home