Some statistics show that more than one million Americans currently live in nursing homes. Many of these patients are our mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, children, and friends. Families often relocate their loved one into a nursing home, believing that they will receive the best care and improve their quality of life in a safe environment.
Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs in many nursing homes, including those in Logan County. If your loved one was injured or died prematurely while residing in a nursing home, contact the West Virginia Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. 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 facility is a 66-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating center providing services to residents of Logan and Logan County, West Virginia. The "for-profit" home is located at:
55 Logan Mingo Mental Health Center Road
Logan, West Virginia 25601
(304) 752-2273
Logan Center Nursing Home
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Logan Center Nursing Home offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-stay care, IV (intravenous) therapy, respite care, hospice, wound care, dementia and memory care, colostomy care, and restorative services involving physical, speech and occupational therapies.
Fined $8,648 for substandard care
Both the state of West Virginia and federal agencies penalize nursing homes by denying reimbursement payments from Medicare or imposing monetary fines anytime the facility is cited for a serious violation of established regulations and rules that harm or could harm residents.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Logan Center Nursing Home for $8,648 on September 19, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received five complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the West Virginia Bureau for Children and Families Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of West Virginia 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 two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
State investigators determined that “the facility failed to provide services in keeping with standards of practice for medication administration.” Nine residents “received duplicate doses of medications when a nurse failed to sign the Medication Administration Records (MAR) during medication pass, and another nurse gave the same medications again thinking they were not given due to the MAR not being signed.”
The facility “implemented corrective actions and no further incidents of this deficient practice were identified.” The state investigators reviewed the facility’s Medication Error Log over the past year on June 22, 2017. The log revealed that fourteen incidents of “medication errors occurred between June 1, 2016, through June 22, 2017.”
The surveyors interviewed the Registered Nurse (RN) Center Nurse Executive “concerning the medication error incidents.” A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) “gave afternoon medications and did not sign the Medication Administration Records at the time the medications were given.” A second LPN gave the same drugs to the same residents, “not realizing the medications had already been given.”
The Physician was notified and knew orders were obtained. The residents “given the extra medication were seen and assessed by the Physician.”
The nursing home “failed to ensure a Nurse Aide could proficiently demonstrate competency skills necessary to provide care and services for a dependent resident incontinent of bowel and bladder.”
The surveyors observed two Nurse Aides providing perineal care (peri-care) to a resident.” The Aides “breached infection control principles and [used] inadequate cleaning techniques. Peri-care means washing the perineal area (genitals and anal rectal area). Peri-care prevents skin breakdown of the perineal area, itching, burning, odor, and infections.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment while you lived at Logan Center Nursing Home? Contact the West Virginia nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Logan County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Logan.
Discuss your case with us now through an initial case consultation at no charge to you. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means we postpone payment for our services until after we have secured a monetary recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Bob Daley
Licensed in West Virginia
Illinois Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home