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This long-term care home is a "for-profit" 65-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of South Daytona and Volusia County, Florida. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
650 Reed Canal Rd
South Daytona, Florida 32119
(386) 767-4831
Oaktree Healthcare Nursing Facility
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Oaktree Healthcare Nursing 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, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Florida and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services for any nursing facility cited for serious violations of regulations and rules.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Florida and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.
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 ensure that one resident environment remained as free of accident hazards as is possible.” The investigation also involved a failure to provide adequate supervision and assistive devices to a second resident to prevent accidents.
In one case, a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) attempted to transfer the resident into their wheelchair from the bed. The CNA did not use a gait belt around the resident’s waist. At the time of the incident, the CNA noticed one of the wheelchair brakes was missing but still attempted to transfer the resident using a stand to pivot maneuver.
During the event, the CNA lost her grip and set the resident down on the floor carefully. After ensuring that the resident was not severely injured, the CNA left the room to seek help. However, with two Certified Nursing Aides, they were still “unable to lift [the resident]” without a gait belt.
The Director of Nursing stated that the CNAs are required to use the gait belt when transferring residents from the chair to the bed and from the bed to the chair. The Director indicated that “she was educating the staff today on transfers and how to use a gait belt and would be providing a copy of the education to the survey team.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies dated August 30, 2018, the facility “failed to ensure the safety of [two residents] who were at risk for falls, and failed to ensure the safety of [another resident] found to have a pair of scissors in her room.”
The investigative team was in the facility conducting a survey when a resident in her room “walked very fast out into the hallway” and grabbed a surveyor’s arm. The resident was “unable to speak or answer questions.”
A Certified Nursing Assistant working down the hallway walked up to assist the resident back into the wheelchair. However, at that time, “the wheelchair moved back two to three inches and [the resident] back into it.”
The state surveyors asked the CNA “whether the wheels on the wheelchair should be locked. She answered, ‘Yes,’ and was observed locking the wheels. The alarm on the back of the wheelchair was not sounding during this observation.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Oaktree Healthcare Nursing Facility? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Volusia County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including South Daytona.
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Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home