Deciding to entrust the medical team at a nursing home to provide a loved one the highest level of care can never be easy. In some situations, nurses and Nurse’s Aides will assure the family that they follow established standards of care when, in fact, that does not happen. Without warning, their loved one can be victimized through mistreatment, neglect or abuse due to mismanagement, insufficient staffing, or poor hiring practices.
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This long-term care center is a 99-certified bed "for-profit" home providing services to residents of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, California. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
831 S Lake Street
Los Angeles, California 90057
(213) 380-9175
NO WEBSITE
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Lakeview Terrace Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Federal investigators penalize nursing facilities with monetary fines and denied payment for Medicare when the nursing home had been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Medicare has cited this facility for abuse. Medicare says that “every nursing home resident deserves to retain their basic human dignity and be treated with respect at all times. Abuse and neglect are never acceptable.” Nursing homes “cited for abuse are required to take steps to protect their residents.”
This nursing facility received seventy-eight complaints and self-reported eleven 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 federal government nursing home regulatory agencies routinely update their care home database system. This list contains historical information 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 that the nursing home “failed to ensure [four residents] were free from neglect, which included but were not limited to, a failure to administer [one resident’s] intravenous (IV, administered into a vein) antibiotics” and a “failure to administer [two other residents’] antibiotics on time.”
These “deficient practices had the potential for worsening infections, adverse effects from infusing the IV antibiotic rate faster than prescribed and for delayed antibiotic administration.” The state investigators initiated a complaint investigation and determined an Immediate Jeopardy situation existed where “the provider’s non-compliance with one or more requirements of participation has caused or is likely to cause serious harm, injury, impairment, or death to a resident.” The Immediate Jeopardy was identified and called on January 9, 2019, at 4:00 PM.”
The facility “failed to provide proper supervision for [one resident] that was not accurately identified as a high risk for elopement (to leave an institution without notice or permission).” As a result, on October 8, 2018, the resident “had successfully eloped, and on October 15, 2018 [seven days later] was brought into a General Acute Care Hospital after being found on the street by a bystander.”
A review of the resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment indicated the resident “had wandered and that behavior of this type occurred one to three days.” A Social Work Progress Note dated October 8, 2018, indicated that the resident’s “family member was unsure if the resident could return home due to a need of supervision.”
A security member stated that the resident “had a tendency to try and wander by the front door [stating that] they would have to redirect [the resident] toward the activities.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Lakeview Terrace 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 Los Angeles.
Our legal team invites you to discuss your case with us today through an initial, free claim consultation. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will not owe us anything until after we have secured a monetary recovery for your family. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home