Mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing facilities are often the result of the nursing staff or other caregivers not providing the resident care according to established standards of quality. Their inappropriate behavior often leads to harm, injury, or wrongful death. In other incidents, the victim is assaulted by other residents.If your loved one was harmed while living in a Nassau County nursing facility, contact the New York Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of dedicated abuse prevention lawyers handle your case to ensure you receive monetary compensation. We will use the law to hold those responsible for causing the harm legally accountable.
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This long-term care home is a "for profit" 200-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Hempstead and Nassau County, New York. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
100 Baldwin Road
Hempstead, New York 11550
(516) 538-7171
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Mayfair Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes primary care clinician services, on-site therapy, diagnostic testing, and social and psychological services.
Both the federal government and the state of New York can impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare of any nursing facility that has been found to have violated the established nursing home rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Mayfair Care Center for $6,893 on July 06, 2018, citing substandard care. This nursing facility also self-reported four serious problems over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the New York State Nursing Home Report Website.
The state of New York 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 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.
According to state investigators, “the facility did not ensure the resident’s rights to be free from physical abuse [for one resident] reviewed for resident-to-resident altercations.” Specifically, this resident had a history of wandering into another residents’ room and walked into another resident’s room. That resident “had a history of physically abusive behavior and [pushed the wandering resident] to the floor resulting in [injury].”
The investigation involved a severely impaired resident who “had no mood or behavior symptoms. He requires extensive assistance with transfer and uses a wheelchair for mobility.” However, the resident’s Comprehensive Care Plan documented the resident’s behavior as “an actual aberrant behavior evidenced by hitting staff and cursing. Interventions included to administer medication as ordered, keep the Physician informed of the resident status, psychiatric and psychological consultations, monitor relationship with other residents, anticipate needs, and positive reinforcement.”
The Nursing Progress Note documented that the resident “attacked another resident and hit him on his back while the resident was passing by him. The staff separated both residents and told [the aggressive resident] the stop.”
The Resident-to-Resident Altercation (Abuser) report documented that the aggressive resident was involved “in actual abuse or and hit another resident. Interventions included to remove the resident from situations utilizing calm approach immediately and provide one on one supervision until [they calm] him.”
Documentation shows that the aggressive “resident was moved to another unit and he was referred to a psychiatrist. No specific staff was assigned to monitor, frequency, or method of monitoring to prevent altercations with other residents were designated.”
The investigators noted that the Resident Care Profile “lacked documented evidence of a history of resident-to-resident altercation and the monitoring needs.” Other documentation indicated that the resident “was combative during care and hit a staff member on her left side.” The Updated Care Plan noted that “the resident hit staff on the face and staff was reinstructed [how] to approach the resident” calmly.
The other resident “was a potential victim related to her inability to protect herself.” One intervention was to remove the female resident from the situation and encourage verbalization of feelings.
Were you the victim of mistreatment while you lived at Mayfair Care Center? Contact the New York nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Nassau County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Hempstead.
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Sources:
Attorney Jennifer Wilson
Licensed in New York
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home