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This nursing home is a Medicare and Medicaid-participating "for-profit" center providing care and services to residents of Oakland and Alameda County, California. The 124-certified bed nursing facility is located at:
475 29th Street
Oakland, California 94609
(510) 832-3222
Medical Hill Healthcare Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Medical Hill Healthcare 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.
State and federal investigators have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home cited for serious violations of regulations and rules. These penalties include levying monetary fines and denying payment of Medicare services. Typically, these violations result in penalties when investigators found severe problems that harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Medicare has cited this facility for abuse. Medicare says that “every nursing home resident deserves to retain their basic human dignity and be treated with respect at all times. Abuse and neglect are never acceptable.” Nursing homes “cited for abuse are required to take steps to protect their residents.”
Within the last thirty-six months, investigators imposed four monetary penalties against Medical Hill Healthcare Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $29,998 fine on October 16, 2018, a $25,620 fine on September 20, 2017, a $17,843 fine on June 07, 2017, and a $3,097 fine on March 28, 2017, for a total of $76,558.
This nursing facility received three complaints and self-reported nine 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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According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues, and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to protect [one resident] from physical abuse when [a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) used the resident’s reacher] (a metal rod with the handle at one end and prongs that open to grab objects on the other) to hit her. This deficient practice resulted in [the resident] obtaining bruises on her body and feeling scared in her living environment.”
The state investigators interviewed the resident who said she was in bed when the CNA “came into her room and took cookies from her bedside table, even though [the resident] told her not to take them.” The resident stated that “she grabbed her reacher and hit the CNA’s arm.” The resident said that the CNA “grabbed the reacher from [her] and hit her 2 to 3 times on her right leg and left arm.” The resident stated that “she felt pain.” The investigators further noted that the resident said that “she felt scared and nervous being in the facility after [the abusive CNA] hit her because something might happen to her.”
The investigators interviewed another CNA who stated that “she had gone into the resident’s room to ask for some cookies to give [another] resident since the kitchen was closed.” The resident responded, “no to the request to share her cookies with the other resident.” At that time, the allegedly abusive CNA entered the resident’s room, “reached over and grabbed some cookies off the resident’s bedside table” and used the reacher to hit the resident.
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Medical Hill Healthcare Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Alameda County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Oakland.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home