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This nursing center is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Morganton and Burke County, North Carolina. The 121-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
107 Magnolia Drive
Morganton, North Carolina 28655
(828) 437-8760
URL:Magnolia Lane Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Magnolia Lane Nursing and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care. The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $13,735 for substandard care
The investigators from the federal government and North Carolina penalize caregiving facilities identified with severe violations of nursing home rules and regulations by withholding payment for Medicare services or imposing monetary fines. The higher the penalty usually means the worse offense.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Magnolia Lane Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for $13,735 on August 30, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received twelve complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of North Carolina 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 one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues, and one out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to put an effective plan in place to prevent [one resident] who smoked from smoking inside the building .” The deficient practice by the nursing staff “placed [the resident] and all other residents in the facility at risk of the facility catching on fire.”
The state investigators determined an Immediate Jeopardy began on March 8, 2018, when the resident “was caught a second time smoking in his room.” Nursing Notes revealed that the resident “continued to exhibit evidence of smoking in the facility, via smoke smells and having smoking materials on his person.”
The “facility failed to bag soiled linen in the resident’s room.” The nursing home also failed to “disinfect the top of the soiled linen container and failed to dispose of a soiled disposable brief, by placing it on top of the geriatric chair and leaving the geriatric chair out in the hallway.”
The nursing staff also “failed to sanitize the contaminated geriatric chair.” The surveyors observed a Nursing Assistant exiting the room to “retrieve a linen container from the soiled utility and place the soiled linen container outside [the room].” The Nurse Aide then retrieved and linen bag and left it “on top of the soiled linen container and walked up the hall.”
The soiled linen had stool that “ leaked out onto the lid of the linen container.” The Assistant “returned to the linen container and observed the stool on top of the soiled linen container. [The Nursing Assistant] retrieved a pre-moistened cloth from the bedside chest of [the resident] and wiped the stool off the top of the linen container and walked up the hall again.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Magnolia Lane Nursing and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the North Carolina nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Burke County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Morganton.
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.
Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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