There are significant problems involving mistreatment occurring in nursing facilities nationwide. Typically, a lack of quality care often results from untrained nursing staff, minimal supervision, or insufficient staffing members on each shift. In these incidents, the patient’s needs are often ignored. This neglect can cause broken bones due to falling, life-altering medical conditions or the development of preventable bedsores.
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This facility is a 120-certified bed "for profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Oklahoma City and Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
5701 West Britton Road
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73132
(405) 773-8900
The Lakes Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, The Lakes Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes long-term care and rehabilitation services.
Oklahoma and federal investigators have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home that has been cited for a serious violation that harmed or could have harmed in nursing home resident. Typically, these penalties include imposed monetary fines and denial of payment for Medicare services.
The nursing home also received three complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Oklahoma Long Term Care Provider Inspection Search Website.
Our attorneys review data on every long-term and intermediate care facility on Medicare.com and the Oklahoma Department of Public Health website.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and one out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state surveyors, “the facility failed to thoroughly investigate an allegation of abuse/mistreatment for [two residents] and a bruising of unknown origin involving a resident’s head.”
One incident involved a resident who requires extensive assistance of two staff members for bed mobility and one-person assistance for transfers, locomotion on-and-off the unit, toilet use, dressing, and personal hygiene.” The survey team reviewed a statement documenting that the resident refused care “throughout the night and by the end of the shift [the staff had to] change his whole bed.”
The staff member said, “we tried to change his shirt, and he started raising his voice, cursing and did not want to be touched.” The staff member stated that the resident began swinging and therefore, “we had walked away and reported it to the nurse in charge.”
A facility incident report dated the following day on February 25, 2017, noted that the resident “reported the care he received from [a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)] was rough.” The resident said that “she rolled me side to side very rough to the point where I yelled at her to stop. The incident report documented no apparent injury. It documented the resident’s son was notified at 11:50 AM” and a “message was left with the resident’s Physician at noon.”
A review of an employee witness statement dated February 25, 2017, written by a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) stated “I received a call from [the resident’s representative stating that the resident] has complained several times that [the CNA] has been very rough when providing care. I reported this to the Case Manager, who was supposed to meet with [the resident].”
The facility Case Manager “came to the nurse’s station to report he told the police that the girl who was rough with them had been here.” The resident stated to the Case Manager that, “I do not want her to be in trouble, but I do not want her to be in his room anymore. She also needs to be an example for other employees here and show that if you do not care about the residents, you get in trouble.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm, abuse or neglect through mistreatment while living at The Lakes Nursing Center? Contact the Oklahoma nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Oklahoma County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Oklahoma City.
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