Any mistreatment of the senior citizen in a nursing facility can constitute neglect or abuse if it occurs at the hands of caregivers, employees, family members, friends, or other patients. Every member of the nursing team and employee staff always has a legal responsibility to protect their residents and keep them safe in their environment.
If your loved one was injured while residing in a Napa County nursing facility, contact the California Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation for your damages. Time is of the essence. All necessary documentation must be filed in the proper county courthouse before the statute of limitations expires.
This center is a 120-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of Napa and Napa County, California. The "for-profit" long-term care home is located at:
705 Trancas St.
Napa, California 94558
(707) 255-6060
Napa Post Acute Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Napa Post Acute Nursing 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.
Fined $28,864 for substandard care
California and the federal government have the legal obligation to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if the home has violated established nursing home regulations and rules. In severe cases, the nursing facility will receive multiple penalties if investigators find the violations are severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Napa Post Acute Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $19,568 fine on May 30, 2017, and a $9,296 fine on February 07, 2017, for a total of $28,864.
This nursing facility received thirteen complaints and self-reported four 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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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the California Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to ensure resident safety when the staff did not implement adequate supervision and assistance for [two residents] who had poor safety awareness and a history of falls, which led to harm.” In one incident, the resident “was noted [by] the facility to be a flight risk. This failure contributed to [the resident falling five times in three months] from December 30, 2016, through March 25, 2017.”
The resident “sustained a fractured right hip from the fall on December 30, 2016, and a fractured left hip from the fall on March 25, 2017.” The other resident fell “while getting out of bed unassisted and developed severe sepsis (the body’s response to an infection that causes injury to its own tissues and organs) and a fractured pelvis.” A third resident “wandered outside the facility unsupervised.”
For the first resident, a review of their Clinical Health Status indicates a score of nineteen for a risk for falls where “a score of ten or greater represents a high fall risk.” The resident also had “short-term and long-term memory problems and needed assistance with decisions.” A Progress Note involving the resident’s first fall indicated that the resident’s daughter found the resident “on the floor near the entrance to the bathroom next to the wheelchair.”
A subsequent Progress Note indicates that the resident “had an unwitnessed fall [and] rolled out of bed while trying to reach for his night table.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered harm, mistreatment, injury, or died prematurely while living at Napa Post Acute Nursing Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Napa County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Napa.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home