Many families have no other choice than to place a loved one in a nursing facility to ensure they receive the highest level of professional care. These families often find comfort in the knowledge that their loved one will remain safe in a compassionate environment. Unfortunately, mistreatment is an all too common occurrence in many nursing facilities throughout Missouri, where caregivers, employees, or other residents injure patients.The Missouri Nursing Home Law Center attorneys have represented many Macon County nursing home patients who were victimized through abuse and neglect. Our legal team works on behalf of our clients to help them receive adequate financial compensation from recovering their damages. We use the law to take immediate action and hold those responsible for the harm legally accountable.
This facility is an 84-certified bed "for-profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Macon and Macon County, Missouri. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
29612 Kellogg Avenue
Macon, Missouri 63552
(660) 385-5797
Macon Health Care Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Macon Health Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, assisted living options, medically-complex care, respiratory care, pulmonary 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 $27,374 for substandard care
The investigators and surveyors for Medicare and the state of Missouri have the legal authority to impose monetary fines are denied payment for Medicare services any time a nursing home is cited for serious violations of regulations and rules.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Macon Health Care Center for $27,374 on January 03, 2019, citing substandard care. This nursing home received four complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Missouri Health and Senior Services Website.
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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Missouri and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, four out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to report an allegation of physical and mental abuse for [one resident] to the State Survey and Certification Agency.” The nursing home also “failed to protect [the resident] from the alleged perpetrator after the facility was aware of [the resident’s] allegation.”
The investigation involved a cognitively intact resident who was “currently in hospice services and plans on being a long-term placement due to his/her medical condition diagnosis.” Documentation shows the resident had “potential risk for falls: use a gait belt (a special belt placed around the resident’s waist to provide a handle during transfers, ambulation, or repositioning residents in the chair) with all transfers.”
The investigators interviewed the resident who stated that “most of the staff are okay.” However, the resident indicated that one particular Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) “had been rough with him/her and hurt his/her arm; he/she had to go to the bathroom; [the CNA] grabbed his/her arm and was rough.”
The resident stated that they do not exactly remember the day that it happened but that it scared him or her when the “CNA pulled on his/her left arm during a transfer.” The resident stated that the CNA had said to the resident, “that is not mean, you do not know what mean is.”
The resident indicated that the CNA “was back in [the resident’s] room a couple of nights ago.” At a subsequent interview, the resident stated he/she “does not know exactly what day the incident occurred [but that] it occurred during the night at approximately 2:00 AM [when he/she] needed help.”
The resident stated that the CNA had been swinging him or her around and “started ripping clothes off of him/her.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury or died prematurely while living at Macon Health Care Center? Contact the Missouri nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Macon County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Macon.
You will not be charged to discuss your case with our legal team during an initial, free case review. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means that you will owe us nothing until we have secured financial compensation on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Melissa Donlon
Licensed in Missouri
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home