Never before have so many American senior citizens entered their retirement years. The advancing age of this massive population has increased the need for additional beds in nursing homes and placed a significant demand on the number of Nurses and Nurse’s Aides required to meet their needs. Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs, and many facilities nationwide.
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This nursing facility is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Marysville and Yuba County, California. The 86-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
1617 Ramirez Street
Marysville, California 95901
(530) 742-7311
Marysville Post-Acute Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Marysville Post-Acute Nursing Center 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 $136,842 for substandard care
It is the legal responsibility of California and the federal government investigators to hold nursing homes accountable if they have violated rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. These penalties include monetary fines and the denial of payment for Medicare services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Marysville Post-Acute Nursing Center for $136,842 on October 24, 2016, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on October 24, 2016, due to a lack of quality care.
This nursing facility received eighteen complaints and self-reported eleven 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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The state of California and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all deficiencies, citations, and violations.
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 three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure that [one resident] was free from physical restraints for the purpose of staff convenience when after a fall from bed, the facility placed the right side of [the resident’s] bed next to the right wall of the room preventing her from voluntarily getting out of the right side of the bed in a scoop mattress on her bed.”
A scoop mattress “is a mattress that sags in the middle from which a resident cannot rise and is used for residents that are prone to unassisted bed exits or falling out of bed. After the scoop mattress was added to the resident’s bed, she reported feelings of claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces).”
The facility also failed to “follow their policy and procedure by not pre-screening the resident [before] placing her bed against the wall in a scoop mattress on her bed, and by not obtaining a Physician’s order and consent [before] use. This failure had the potential to contribute to negative effects including loss of dignity and feelings of confinement.”
The state investigative team reviewed the Interdisciplinary Team Progress Note dated January 29, 2018. The note indicated that the group had met regarding an unwitnessed fall the resident had on January 27, 2018, at 8:45 PM. The team recommended the therapy department perform screening before placing a scoop mattress on the resident’s bed. However, “there was no documented evidence that the interdisciplinary team reviewed and discussed the potential physical or psychosocial impacts associated with the use of the scoop mattress or placing the bed against the wall. There was no documented evidence the interdisciplinary team considered these interventions as forms of restraint.”
A review of the Physical Therapy Progress Note dated March 1, 2018, indicated that the resident “had not been screened for the appropriateness of the scoop mattress until [that day].”
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Marysville Post-Acute Nursing Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Yuba County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Marysville.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home