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This nursing home is a Medicare and Medicaid-participating "for profit" center providing cares and services to residents of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. The 80-certified bed nursing facility is located at:
2730 W Ramsey Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53221
(414) 282-2600
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Maple Ridge Health Services Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes dietary services, clinical care, social activities, and rehabilitation.
The state of Wisconsin and the federal government are legally responsible for monitoring each nursing home and imposing monetary fines and denying payments through Medicare if serious violations have been identified. These penalties are typically imposed when the violation is severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Maple Ridge Health Services Care Center for $7,938 on November 21, 2016, citing substandard care. The nursing home also received one complaint and self-reported one serious problem over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Wisconsin Department of Health Services - Residential Care Website.
Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Wisconsin long-term care home from various online publically available sources including the Department of Public Health website 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, one out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state investigators, “the facility did not provide adequate supervision assisted devices to prevent accidents” for sixteen residents “reviewed with the potential for elopement.” In one incident, a resident “eloped from the facility on July 8, 2018, at approximately 7:45 AM and was returned to the facility by her family at 9:30 AM.”
The facility was not aware that the resident “had eloped until the family brought [the resident] back to the facility. The facility failed to conduct a root cause analysis of [the resident’s] elopement related to [their] ability to leave the building unwitnessed by the staff.”
The facility did not determine why “staff did not notice [the resident] was not in the building during the breakfast meal which should have alerted the staff to search for [the resident] and a safety assessment on the front lobby entrance that is unsupervised by facility staff.”
The nursing home “did not ensure residents received appropriate services and treatments to prevent pressure injuries.” The deficient practice involved three residents “reviewed for pressure injuries.”
In one incident, it one resident in one case, a resident “did not have their heels off-loaded to prevent an injury.” A second resident “did not have a treatment dressing on a current pressure injury area.” A third resident “did not have heels off-loaded to prevent a pressure injury.”
The “facility did not ensure residents receive the PCB 13 immunizations requested, nor offered when eligible.” This deficiency was observed with for residents. Two of the residents “requested the PCB 13 immunizations and did not receive it.” The two other residents “were ineligible for the PCV 13 and were not offered the immunization.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect or abuse while living at Maple Ridge Health Services Care Center? Contact the Wisconsin nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Milwaukee County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Milwaukee.
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Sources:
Attorney Gerald Bekkerman
Licensed in Wisconsin
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home