Mistreatment of the elderly living in nursing homes is disgraceful, unacceptable, and reprehensible. Many families entrust the care of their loved one to the nursing home staff only to be horrified when they realize that they are being mistreated, neglected, or abused by caregivers, employees, or other patients.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Travis County nursing facility, contact the Texas nursing home network of attorneys at (800) 926-7565 now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This long-term care center is a 124-certified bed "government-owned " home providing services to residents of Austin and Travis County, Texas. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
11020 Dessau Rd
Austin, Texas 78754
(512) 873-2244
Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center - North
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center - North offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound 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 $135,616 for substandard care
The state of Texas and the federal government have a legal responsibility for monitoring every nursing home. These agencies have the authority to impose monetary penalties or hold payment from Medicare if the nursing facility has violated rules and regulations. Typically, the more serious the violation, the higher the monetary fines, especially if neglect or abuse caused harm or could have caused harm to a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center - North for $135,616 on August 03, 2017, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on August 03, 2017, due to a lack of quality care.
This nursing facility received six complaints and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Website.
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According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure each resident was free from neglect, for one resident] reviewed for neglect.” Specifically, “the facility failed to provide and administer [the resident’s anticonvulsant medication every twelve hours].”
This failure could “place all eleven residents who are prescribed anticonvulsant medications for [a disorder] at risk for neglect.” The state investigators reviewed the resident’s Medication Administration Records that revealed that there was no discontinuation order for the medication.
As a result of the administration of the medication being missed twice daily, the resident was “transferred to the emergency room” with complications. Nearly six weeks after the resident was found unresponsive, the resident’s daughter stated that the resident “was still in the intensive care unit on a ventilator. The daughter stated that [the resident’s neurologist is the only provider who changes her anticonvulsant orders and [the resident] had not had an appointment with a neurologist to discontinue [the medication].”
The facility “failed to ensure the written investigation was submitted to the State Survey Agency within five working days of the incident” as required by law. It was determined that “this failure could place the census of eighty-five residents at risk for abuse, exploitation, and the misappropriation of property.”
A review of the Incident Report involving two residents “was submitted by the facility to the State Survey Agency regarding a resident-to-resident altercation” where the residents were yelling at each other and needed to be separated. Even with staff intervention, both residents “managed to strike each other on the other’s shoulders.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center - North? Contact the Texas nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Travis County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Austin.
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