Nursing home negligence takes on many forms, where the nursing staff can misbehave, or other patients assault the resident because of a lack of supervision. Many nursing homes throughout West Virginia are understaffed, or the administration hires inadequately trained nurses and nurse aides. Other nursing facilities did not follow acceptable practices for providing the utmost care.
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This facility is a 24-certified bed "non-profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Grantsville and Calhoun County, West Virginia. The Medicaid-participating center is located at:
186 Hospital Drive
Grantsville, West Virginia 26147
(304) 354-9244
Minnie Hamilton Health Care
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Minnie Hamilton Health Care offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, behavioral health services, radiology, clinic services, cardiopulmonary and pulmonary rehab, acute care, respiratory therapy, high complexity laboratory services, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Both the federal government and the state of West Virginia 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.
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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To be fully informed on the level of care nursing homes provide, families routinely research Medicare.gov and the West Virginia Department of Public Health website database systems for a complete list of deficiencies, violations, and citations.
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 two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home "failed to develop a baseline Care Plan for [a resident], to provide effective person-centered care of the resident to meet professional standards of quality care."
The state investigators reviewed the resident's medical records, dated May 10, 2019, and found a Nursing Note indicating that the resident had a fall. The note indicated the resident was "walking with staff and reached for her wheelchair, lost [their] balance, and started to fall." The "staff member helped the resident to the floor."
The "facility failed to develop a comprehensive, person-centered Care Plan for each resident, including the measurable objectives and time frames to meet the resident's medical, nursing, mental, and psychosocial needs identified in the comprehensive assessment."
A review of the resident's medical records, noted in the above citation, found that she was assessed for being at "risk for falls." However, the resident's current Care Plan "found no focus statement, goal, or intervention that indicated [that the resident] was an extensive assist of two staff members and that the use of a gait belt was required."
The nursing home "failed to provide an environment free of accident hazards." Specifically, "the facility failed to supervise smoking for [an oxygen-dependent] resident."
The facility also "failed to safely secure the resident's lighter and cigarettes to ensure other residents did not have access to them." The facility failed to "ensure that [the resident] was assessed upon admission for the assistance that she needed when ambulating, [but] was not assessed until five days after admission."
State investigators determined that an Immediate Jeopardy situation occurred after allowing an oxygen-dependent resident "to go outside and smoke unsupervised. No safe smoking assessment was completed."
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Minnie Hamilton Health Care? Contact the West Virginia nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Calhoun County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Grantsville.
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Sources:
Attorney Bob Daley
Licensed in West Virginia
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home