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 while living in a Cleveland County nursing facility, contact the Oklahoma Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of lawyers handle your case to ensure you receive monetary compensation. We will use the law to hold those responsible for causing harm legally accountable.
This nursing center is a "city government-owned" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Moore and Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The 154-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
2120 North Broadway
Moore, Oklahoma 73160
(405) 794-2428
Hillcrest Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Hillcrest Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes diabetic care, wound care, post-operative care, and restorative care involving physical, speech and occupational therapies.
The state of Oklahoma and the federal government are legally responsible for monitoring each nursing home and imposing monetary fines and denying payments through Medicare if serious violations have been identified. These penalties are typically imposed when the violation is severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Hillcrest Nursing Center for $6,672 on June 29, 2017, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on August 21, 2018, due to a lack of quality care.
The nursing home also received eighteen complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Oklahoma Long Term Care Provider Inspection Search Website.
The federal government and Oklahoma Department of Public Health website update comprehensive information containing historical details of all citations and violations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined an Immediate Jeopardy situation existed “due to the facility’s failure to provide adequate supervision and interventions for a resident with a history of suicide attempts.” The resident was admitted to the facility “after an episode of depression and attempted suicide.”
The investigation involved a male resident at the facility with “a long history of mental health issues [that involve] thoughts of death, dying and suicide.” The resident “has thoughts of jumping off a bridge or overdosing. Sometimes [the resident] feels like [he will] never wake up.” The resident has “past psychiatric history and multiple psychiatric hospitalizations with multiple suicide attempts and gestures in the past.”
The investigators reviewed the resident’s Based on Care Plan dated May 5, 2018, that “did not address the resident’s history of depression and suicide attempts.” The surveyors reviewed the Health Status Note dated July 11, 2018, that documented an Aide informed the nurse on the hall that the “resident was upset and had head-butted and punched the picture in the hall. Upon arrival, the nurse noted the resident was bleeding from the forehead and leaning up against the wall.”
The resident “proceeded to throw a chair at the window and [also a] vending machine.” The nurse “was able to calm the resident down enough to apply pressure to the left hand cut from punching the picture on the wall. The resident stated that “he was upset and homicidal.”
The resident’s updated Care Plan included goals ensured that the resident did not have any major injuries from behaviors. However, “there was no documentation that the facility had a psychiatric consult and services provided to the resident after the July 11, 2018 episode of the resident being homicidal and head-butting and punching pictures on the wall that resulted in a laceration to the forehead and hand.”
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Hillcrest Nursing Center? Contact the Oklahoma nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Cleveland County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Moore.
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