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This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Pasadena and Los Angeles County, California. The 130-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
150 Bellefontaine St
Pasadena, California 91105
(626) 796-1103 Huntington Post Acute Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Huntington Post Acute Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care along with comprehensive rehab services, wound care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $15,000 for substandard care
The federal government, through nursing home regulatory agencies, can impose fines or deny payment for Medicare services for any nursing facility with severe violations of rules and regulations. Typically, hefty fines are levied against the nursing home when the most egregious violations have occurred that harmed or could harm a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Huntington Post Acute Nursing Center for $15,000 on October 09, 2018, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received twenty-one complaints and self-reported six serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of California and Medicare.com routinely update their comprehensive list of deficiencies online to reflect all 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues, and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to provide padded side rails for [two residents].” This “deficient practice places a resident at risk for an accident and injury while in bed.”
One severely cognitively impaired resident was admitted to the facility with “involuntary body shaking and dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing)” who requires “extensive assistance with activities of daily living.” The resident was observed in bed during an initial tour of the facility “with bilateral side rails without padding.” Three days later, the resident was observed asleep in the room in bed with “bilateral side rails up and no padding on the side rails.” A Registered Nurse (RN) stated that “padded side rails should have been installed per Physician’s orders to prevent injury.”
The “facility failed to ensure one staff member used Personal Protective Equipment (PPE protection clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer’s body from injury or infection) properly to meet professional standards.”
Surveyors determined that “this deficient practice had the potential to spread infection and transmission of communicable diseases.” The nursing home also failed to ensure that “infection control practices were maintained for a peripheral intravenous (IV) access for [one resident].” This “deficient practice placed the resident at risk for infection.”
A Registered Nurse (RN) stated that the resident had no Care Plan for their IV access and that the nurse was unaware that the IV had been in place for seven days. A review of the facility’s policy and procedures titled: Guidelines for Preventing Intravenous Catheter-Related Infections from August 2014, reads in part:
“If an IV access is left in place longer than ninety-six hours (four days), a Physician’s order should be obtained and documented [with] a rationale for leaving the catheter in place due to increased risk of infection.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment while you lived at Huntington Post Acute Nursing Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Los Angeles County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Pasadena.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home