The Michigan Nursing Home Law Center attorneys represents victims of nursing home assault and abuse occurring in Michigan. Our team of abuse prevention lawyers has handled cases where Oakland County nursing home residents were mistreated by the medical team, Nurses, State-Tested Nursing Assistants, visitors, employees, and other patients.If your loved one was injured, abused, or mistreated at any Michigan nursing facility, contact us today. Let us represent your family to ensure you receive monetary compensation to recover your damages.
This facility is a 160-certified bed "for-profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Troy and Oakland County, Michigan. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
925 W South Blvd
Troy, Michigan 48085
(248) 729-4400
Heartland Health Care Center - Oakland Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Heartland Health Care Center - Oakland Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long-term care and outpatient rehab.
State investigators working on behalf of the federal government, Medicare, and Medicaid have the legal authority to impose monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services to any nursing facility that has violated rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Heartland Health Care Center - Oakland Nursing Center for $7,311 on June 08, 2016, citing substandard care.
This nursing facility received thirteen complaints and self-reported twenty-five serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulations Complaint Website.
Our attorneys review data on every long-term and intermediate care facility on Medicare.com and the Michigan Department of Public Health website.
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.
According to state investigators, “the facility failed to assess and implement timely and effective interventions for the prevention of resident discomfort and an incident of inappropriate sexual contact for four residents.”
The deficient practice by the nursing home resulted in “verbalized complaints of resident behavior and the discovery of one resident being inappropriately touched in a sexual manner by another resident.”
A Facility Reported Investigation file revealed that a resident “was discovered [in another resident’s] room on the bed rubbing their groin/genital area. In response to the incident, a document contained in the file included statements from other residents on the unit when queried about whether any male patients had entered their rooms uninvited.”
Another resident stated that the wandering male resident “would sometimes stand in the doorway and stare in, he stares at me.” Another resident stated, “he always likes to stare at her in the doorway with his hands on his hip. I just close the door and pull the curtain, and I tell him to go back to bed. He stares at [the other resident], and it scares her when he does and says, ‘He is on the prowl again.’”
These two residents indicated that they had concerns about the male resident’s behaviors and stated that “they did not think the person was still in the facility.” One resident stated that the aggressive male resident would stand at the door and stare in “every day and every night [saying] he stared all the time when I was eating.”
In a separate summary statement dated October 12, 2018, the facility “failed to prevent verbal abuse of [two residents].” This deficient practice “resulted in both actual and potential mental anguish and psychosocial harm.”
The Facility Reported Incident Folder alleges a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) “hurt [the resident’s] feelings and made her feel bad when she asked for a brief change by asking why she did not call for a bedpan [before] becoming incontinent.” The nursing home suspended the staff member “pending the outcome of the investigation and was subsequently counseled regarding customer service and resident’s rights by the Director of Nursing after the investigation was completed.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury or died prematurely while living at Heartland Health Care Center - Oakland Nursing Center? Contact the Michigan nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Oakland County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Troy.
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Sources:
Attorney Robert Lantzy
Licensed in Michigan
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home