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This center is a 60-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia. The "for-profit" long-term care home is located at:
2149 Greenbrier Street
Charleston, West Virginia 25311
(304) 344-4268
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Meadowbrook Acres Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Federal investigators penalize nursing facilities with monetary fines and denied payment for Medicare when the nursing home had been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
This nursing facility received twelve complaints over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of West Virginia 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues, and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to monitor and provide ongoing clinical assessments during the final days of [one resident] reviewed for a care area of death."
The state investigators reviewed Nursing Notes and found "no indication that the resident expired at the facility. The last Nursing Note written [before the resident's death] involved a family member's request for the resident to not participate in bowel movement protocol. The Death Certificate noted that the resident had died of natural causes.
The state investigators interviewed the Director of Nursing, who reviewed the resident's medical records. The Director "confirmed there was no evidence the resident was assessed and provided Comfort Care as indicated" on the resident's records.
The "facility failed to provide treatment to help prevent pressure wounds. This [failure] was evident for one resident observed who currently resided in the facility," and had contractures.
The resident "wore a palm guard on his contracted hand with no padding between contracted fingers, which overlay one another, thereby putting them at risk for developing a pressure wound."
The surveyors observed the resident at noon, "sitting in a specialty chair in the therapy department. He wore a tan/white palm protector to the right hand." At that time, a Physical Therapy Assistant and Restorative Aide were present and "were asked if they could remove the palm protector from the right hand." The palm could then be visualized. The surveyors saw "the right index finger [laid] tightly against the third finger of the right hand."
There "was no padding between the fingers." Both aides were "asked if they could separate those two fingers without causing the resident pain so that the skin could be inspected between those two fingers."
The surveyors observed an obvious indentation measuring approximately one inch long "on the third finger, and narrow and with, because my pressure from the contracted, bent, index finger or nail cutting into it."
The surveyors noted that there was "no odor [in the] opened area." One Assistant stated that "she would obtain finger separators for him [and agreed] that without padding between those two fingers, it could cause a pressure wound to develop."
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Sources:
Attorney Bob Daley
Licensed in West Virginia
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home