Many families have limited options on how to ensure that their loved one receives the best care and choose to place them in a community nursing facility. Unfortunately, the incident rates of abuse and neglect occurring in nursing homes nationwide have risen significantly over the last few decades. Many patients become victims of mistreatment at the hands of caregivers, employees, visitors, or other residents.If your loved one suffered harm or was injured, abused or mistreated while living in a Hamilton County nursing facility, contact the Indiana 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 nursing facility is a "non-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Carmel and Hamilton County, Indiana. The 104-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
12999 N Pennsylvania St
Carmel, Indiana 46032
(317) 848-2448
ManorCare Health Services Summer Trace Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, ManorCare Health Services Summer Trace Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes memory care, system living options, hospice, palliative care, and rehabilitation.
It is the responsibility of federal and state investigators to penalize any nursing home that has violated a rule or regulation that caused harm or could have caused harm to a resident. Many of these penalties involve monetary fines or denial of payment for Medicare services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against ManorCare Health Services Summer Trace Nursing Center for $13,627 on June 06, 2018, citing substandard care.
The nursing home received eleven complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Indiana Nursing Home Report Cards Website.
The state of Indiana and Medicare.com routinely update their comprehensive list of deficiencies online to reflect all violations
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, four out of five stars for staffing issues and five out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that “the facility failed to supervise a resident with a known aspiration risk [sucking food into the airway], after a meal tray was served in his room while he was in bed, not following an order to be in the dining room with supervision.”
The resident “was served dinner in his room, unsupervised, choked, became unresponsive, required cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and was admitted to the hospital.”
The state investigators determined that an Immediate Jeopardy began when [the resident was left unsupervised in his room with his dinner tray.” A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) indicated that even though she was not working that evening that the resident choked, she heard from others that “his dinner tray was delivered by a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) and left in his room for an undetermined amount of time.”
At some point, another CNA “came into his room to assist him [in eating]. She indicated before the second CNA arrived into the resident’s room to assist him, he was already choking.” A Progress Note indicated to the resident was choking during dinner choking on a piece of meat. However, the resident “continued to choke. The CNA notified the nurse, the [Heimlich maneuver] was initiated [and] 911 was called.”
The resident began turning blue and became unresponsive. The nursing staff initiated CPR before paramedics arrived who took over the resident’s care and ultimately transferred the resident to the hospital.
When the emergency medical technicians arrived at the scene, they intubated the resident and “pulled out a very large amount of impacted bread from his oral pharynx. The paramedics intubated the resident after two minutes of CPR.” Then “he started gagging against the breathing tube, so the paramedics removed the breathing tube and placed [the resident] on a high concentration of oxygen.”
Though the resident was able to maintain breathing, they experienced respiratory distress sometime later and was placed on a ventilator and ultimately placed in hospice after being dismissed from the hospital. A Registered Nurse (RN) at the facility indicated that the resident “was not supposed to be left unsupervised while he was eating.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at ManorCare Health Services Summer Trace Nursing Center? Contact the Indiana nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Hamilton County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Carmel.
It is always free to discuss your case with our legal team. We provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will owe us nothing until we can secure a financial recovery on your behalf.
Sources:
Attorney Jeffrey D. Powless
Licensed in Indiana
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home