There are significant problems involving mistreatment occurring in nursing facilities nationwide. Typically, a lack of quality care often results from untrained nursing staff, minimal supervision, or insufficient staffing members on each shift. In these incidents, the patient’s needs are often ignored. This neglect can cause broken bones due to falling or the development of preventable pressure sores.
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This nursing center is a "non-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Hemet and Riverside County, California. The 178-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
1717 West Stetson Avenue
Hemet, California 92545
(951) 925-9171
ManorCare Health Services - Hemet
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, ManorCare Health Services - Hemet offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound 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 $29,850 for substandard care
The federal government and the state of California routinely monitor every nursing facility to identify serious violations of established rules and regulations and levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when problems are found. Typically, these violations result in penalties when investigators found severe problems that harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against ManorCare Health Services - Hemet for $29,850 on March 13, 2017, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on March 13, 2017, due to a lack of quality care.
This nursing facility received twenty-nine complaints and self-reported eighteen serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites, including the California Department of Public Health and Medicare.gov.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, three 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 injury of unknown origin to the Department (California Department of Public Health) as required, and provide a written report of the investigation within five days for [one resident]. This failure increased the potential for [the resident’s] injury of unknown origin and other potential unknown injuries to not be investigated and addressed.”
The state investigators interviewed a resident’s family member who stated that the resident “had been at the facility for over a year, was not alert and oriented, and could not verbalize her needs.” The family member stated to the investigators that the resident “had a new bruise on her side, not related to a fall.” The family member noted that the resident “had a caregiver at her bedside twenty-four hours a day in the facility [that] would not tell [the family member] what happened.”
The investigative team made an unannounced visit to the facility and reviewed medical records, including the resident’s Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) that indicated that the resident “requires extensive two-person assistance for bed mobility and transfers and limited one-person assistance for walking.”
A Nurse’s Note indicated that the patient had “skin discoloration of the left side next to her left breast and next to the left rib cage.” The patient was “not able to comment what happened.”
There “was no documented indication the injury of unknown origin was immediately reported to the facility’s Administrator/Abuse Coordinator or the Director of Nursing to investigate the cause and extent of the injury.” The investigators interviewed a Licensed Vocational Nurse and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), who stated that “she did not remember the resident falling down.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at ManorCare Health Services - Hemet? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Riverside County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Hemet.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home