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This center is a 90-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of Marmet and Kanawha County, West Virginia. The "for-profit" long-term care home is located at:
One Sutphin Drive
Marmet, West Virginia 25315
(304) 949-1580
Marmet Center Nursing Home
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Marmet Center Nursing Home offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-stay care, IV (intravenous) therapy, respite care, hospice, wound care, dementia and memory care, colostomy care, and restorative services involving physical, speech and occupational therapies.
Fined $31,272 for substandard care
West Virginia and federal investigators have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home that has been cited for a serious violation that harmed or could have harmed in nursing home resident. Typically, these penalties include imposed monetary fines and denial of payment for Medicare services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Marmet Center Nursing Home for $31,272 on April 13, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received six complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional documentation about fines and penalties can be found on the West Virginia Bureau for Children and Families 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 West Virginia 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, two out of five stars for staffing issues and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that “the facility failed to ensure the residents’ environment was free from accident hazards as possible for [two residents] reviewed for the care area of the accidents.” Two of the residents “had potentially hazardous items on their fall mats.”
In one case, a resident had an order initiated on October 26, 2017, “for bilateral floor mats.” The resident “experienced a fall from her bed on December 2, 2017.” The surveyors observed the resident environment on April 9, 2018 and found “a trash can sitting on the right floor mat and a bedside table on the left floor mat.
The surveyors show the Director of Nursing the trash can “on the right floor mat and the bedside table in the left floor mat” that were “immediately removed.”
The surveyors then observed the second resident and found “the resident in bed, sleeping. No staff was present in the resident’s room. The bed was in a low position. Fall mats were on each side of the bed. The over-the-bed table was parked on the fall mat to the residents left side.”
A Registered Nurse (RN) confirmed the “over the bed table should not be sitting on the fall mat. She said the staff probably forgot to move the table after the resident had breakfast.”
The nursing home “failed to notify the Physician or the resident’s legal representative of a change in medical condition.” For one resident, “the facility failed to notify the Physician of the resident’s high glucose results (over 400) on multiple occasions. If the Physician is not notified of the resident’s high glucose results, they cannot evaluate a further medical intervention is needed or make decisions regarding treatment.”
For a second resident, “the facility failed to properly notify the resident’s legal representative on two occasions when medication changes were made in his drug regimen.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Marmet Center Nursing Home? Contact the West Virginia nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Kanawha County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Marmet.
Our legal team never charges potential clients to discuss your case through an initial claim consultation. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will not owe us any money unless we have received a monetary recovery on your behalf.
Sources:
Attorney Bob Daley
Licensed in West Virginia
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home