Deciding to entrust the medical team at a nursing home to provide a loved one the highest level of care can never be easy. In some situations, Nurses and Nurse’s Aides will assure the family that they follow established standards of care when, in fact, that does not happen. Without warning, their loved one can be victimized through mistreatment, neglect, or abuse due to mismanagement, insufficient staffing, or poor hiring practices.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Maricopa County nursing facility, contact the Arizona nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal help. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers handle your case to ensure your family receives financial compensation to recover your damages. We can begin working on your case now.
This nursing facility is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Mesa and Maricopa County, Arizona. The 100-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
6461 East Baywood Avenue
Mesa, Arizona 85206
(480) 832-5160
Mission Palms of Mesa Health and Rehabilitation Facility
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Mission Palms of Mesa Health and Rehabilitation Facility 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, pain management, hospice, orthopedic care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Arizona and federal government agencies have the legal responsibility of monitoring every nursing home and imposing monetary fines or denying reimbursement payments through Medicare if investigators identify serious violations and deficiencies. These penalties are typically imposed when the violation is severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
This nursing home received four complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Arizona 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 Arizona 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 one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues, and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure that adequate supervision was provided to [one resident] during care, resulting in a fall with a fracture.” The investigation involved a severely cognitively impaired resident who “was assessed to require the assistance of two or more with bed mobility.”
The resident’s Care Plan indicated that the resident “had a self-care deficit, as evidenced by maximum assist for most activities of daily living related to muscle weakness and additional risks related to an orthostatic medical condition.” The staff needed to wash, dress, set up, cue and assist the resident for activities of daily living.
A Medicare Note indicated that while changing the resident in bed, the patient “fell out of bed and onto the floor. The patient was still in pain at the time of transfer but was alert again, unable to answer some questions appropriately, but still had a noticeable change in mentation.”
A Registered Nurse (RN) wrote a statement documenting that the supervisor “was notified that the resident was involved in a fall. The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) reported that he was cleaning the patient in bed without the assistance of another CNA.” The statement indicates that the CNA “had the resident roll on his side with the resident’s body facing toward him. The CNA reported that the resident began to roll onto his body and off the bed and that he attempted to break the patient’s fall with his body, but the resident ultimately fell to the ground.”
The CNA “was asked how hard the resident had hit the floor and the CNA responded, ‘with some force.’” The CNA responded no one “asked if the resident hit his head.” The “floor nurse reported that he entered the room to find the resident on the floor face down.”
When asked, the resident stated that “he had a headache which he rated as a 7/10, with ten being the worst pain he ever felt.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment while you lived at Mission Palms of Mesa Health and Rehabilitation Facility? Contact the Arizona nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Maricopa County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Mesa.
Our legal team never charges potential clients to discuss your case through an initial claim consultation. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will not owe us any money unless we have received a monetary recovery on your behalf.
Sources:
Attorney James Morgan
Licensed in Arizona
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home