Many families have no other choice than to place a loved one in a nursing facility to ensure they receive the highest level of professional care. These families often find comfort in the knowledge that their loved ones will remain safe in a compassionate environment. Unfortunately, mistreatment is an all too common occurrence in many nursing facilities throughout Florida, where caregivers, employees, or other residents injure patients.
The Florida nursing home affiliate attorneys have represented many Brevard County nursing home patients who were victimized through abuse and neglect. Our legal team of abuse prevention lawyers works on behalf of our clients to help them receive adequate financial compensation from recovering their damages. We use the law to take immediate action and hold those responsible for the harm legally accountable.
This facility is a "for-profit" 100-certified bed long term care center providing care and services to residents of Rockledge and Brevard County, Florida. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating home is located at:
1775 Huntington Lane
Rockledge, Florida 32955
(321) 632-7341
Huntington Place Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Huntington Place Nursing Center 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, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $51,801 for substandard care
Federal and state investigators can penalize any nursing home that has violated rules and regulations that resulted in harm or could have resulted in the harm of a resident. These penalties include imposing monetary fines and denying payment for Medicare services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Huntington Place Nursing Center for $51,801 on November 21, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received one complaint over the last thirty-six months that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Florida long-term care home from various online publically available sources, including the Department of Public Health website and Medicare.gov.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, three 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 provide adequate supervision for [six residents] identified as at risk for unsafe smoking.” This “failure contributed to [a resident] smoking unsupervised and sustaining a burn on her abdomen and placed other residents at risk for serious injury/impairment/death from [smoking] fires.”
The state investigators determined that “the facility’s failure to adequately supervise all smokers to ensure their safety and prevent accidents resulted in the substandard quality of care at the Immediate Jeopardy level as of September 10, 2018, which was determined to be ongoing.”
In one case, a resident’s medical records revealed that the resident “smoked a half pack of cigarettes per day." The Nurse’s Note indicated that the resident “was a smoker who required supervision due to [the patient] smoking in her room.” The resident had “poor memory, unsafe smoking habits, and was unable to demonstrate the location of the designated smoking area.”
The form stated that the resident “lit a cigarette in her room on two occasions today.” Another Nursing Progress Note dated June 13, 2018, revealed that the staff “smelled cigarettes in the hallway and [the resident] was again observed smoking inside the facility.” A Progress Note dated the following day indicated that “[the resident] was a smoker and spent time in the courtyard smoking.”
On July 6, 2018, the resident’s daughter was at a Care Plan meeting and informed the facility that “the family would supply her mother with smoking materials.” The Smoking Evaluation form was completed that day, and the resident “continued to require supervision with smoking [because the resident] sometimes forgets and smokes in the room. The evaluation indicated [the resident] no longer disposed of cigarette ashes and butts properly.”
A Nursing Progress Note dated after the above events detail that the resident was burned on the right abdomen and had a blister in an area around her navel. It was determined that as a supervised smoker she was to “wear a smoking apron and have no access to cigarettes or lighters.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Huntington Place Nursing Center? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Brevard County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Rockledge.
Our legal team offers every client a free, initial case consultation. Additionally, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means you do not owe us anything until we have secured a monetary compensation on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home