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This long-term care center is a 45-certified bed "for-profit" home providing services to residents of La Harpe and Hancock County, Illinois. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
101 North B Street
La Harpe, Illinois 61450
(217) 659-3222
LaHarpe Davier Health Care Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, LaHarpe Davier Health Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
This facility also provides comprehensive adult life skills training, coping skills, aggression, and symptom management, depression management, and an in-house work program. The nursing home also provides respite care, hospice, Alzheimer’s/dementia care, recuperative stay options, physical, occupational and speech therapies, along with a smoking program.
Illinois and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services for any nursing facility cited for serious violations of regulations and rules.
The nursing home received two complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Illinois Adult Protective Services Website.
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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Illinois Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one 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 document and indicate a medical diagnosis/symptom for the use of restraint for [one resident].” The surveyors observed the resident on the morning of December 17, 2018, “in her wheelchair with a lap cushion, propelling in the hallway.”
The state survey team reviewed the resident’s Physician’s orders and MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment that show that the severely, cognitively impaired resident had a documented restraint of a lap cushion used “because of resident safety following multiple falls related to Alzheimer’s/dementia.”
The resident’s Physical Restraint/Enabler Assessment documents that the restraint is to be used when the resident is to avoid “falling forward, sideways, sliding down, and slumping.” An interdisciplinary team Progress Note documents that the resident “took the lap cushion off and attempted to take clothes off and slid to the floor. The lap cushion was replaced with a different lap cushion.”
A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) stated that the resident “has a lap cushion due to multiple falls [and] was able to take the last lap cushion off and then fell out of her wheelchair.” The LPN stated "so now [the resident] has a new lap cushion that she has not been able to take off yet.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies dated January 17, 2018, the facility “failed to ensure [one resident] was not physically restrained.” On January 16, 2018, 10:15 AM, the resident stated that they were “held down by a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) to obtain a urine sample via straight catheterization.” The resident stated that the CNA “held my legs in place and put her body over mine, so all I could do was hit her back.”
The CNA verified approximately forty minutes later that the resident “cannot really move her legs at all. I held them open for a straight catheterization. I did not hold her hands but blocked her from contaminating the site with my upper body.” The CNA did confirm that the resident “screamed and said, ‘No.’” This investigation involved a review of medical records and interviews.
Were you the victim of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while you lived at LaHarpe Davier Health Care Center? Contact the Illinois network of abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Hancock County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including La Harpe.
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Sources:
Attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld
Licensed in Illinois
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home