Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Abuse and Neglect Lawyers

There are significant serious life-threatening problems involving harm, mistreatment, abuse, and neglect occurring in nursing facilities nationwide. Typically, a lack of quality care often results from untrained nursing staff, minimal supervision, or insufficient staffing members on each shift. In these incidents, the patient’s needs are often ignored. This neglect can cause broken bones due to falling, or the development of preventable bedsores.

If your loved one was injured while residing in an Onondaga County nursing facility, contact the New York Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of dedicated abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages. We can begin working on your case today.

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Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "for profit" home providing services to residents of Minoa and Onondaga County, New York. The 82-certified bed long-term care home is located at:

217 East Avenue
Minoa, New York 13116
(315) 656-7277
Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing offers other services. Additional focused care includes cardiac therapy, palliative care, comfort care, wound care, stroke rehab, respiratory management, post-surgical orthopedic care, and IV (intravenous) antibiotic therapy.

Fined $26,393 for substandard care

Financial Penalties and Violations

Both the state of New York and federal agencies are legally obligated to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators find the nursing home seriously violated established nursing home regulations and rules.

Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing for $26,393 on February 09, 2018, citing substandard care. This nursing facility also received thirty-eight complaints and self-reported three serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.

Additional information concerning the facility problems involving penalties and fines can be reviewed on the New York State Nursing Home Report Website.

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Minoa New York Nursing Home Safety Concerns

Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the New York 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, two out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.

• Failure to Timely Report Suspected Abuse, Neglect or Theft and Report the Results of the Investigation to Proper Authorities – citation #F609 date February 9, 2018

According to state investigators, it was determined that “the facility did not ensure that all alleged violations involving abuse and neglect were investigated to rule out abuse/neglect and were reported to the New York State Department of Health as required.” Specifically, one resident “sustained a fall with injuries, and it was not reported to the [Department of Health] in a timely manner.”

Documentation shows of the resident “had a resident-to-resident altercation the facility did not report the incident” to the proper authorities. The incident involved a cognitively impaired resident who “sustained one fall with injury since the prior assessment.” The resident had a history of falls and “unsteady transfer/gait, generalized weakness, and dizziness.”

A Nursing Progress Note documented that the resident’s motion sensor alarm “sounded, the staff responded and found the resident on the floor on the right side of her bed, face down, lying on her right side.” At that time, the resident “had a right forehead hematoma, right shoulder bruising, and multiple right arm skin tears. The resident complained of lower back pain [and] was sent to the hospital for further evaluation.”

The documentation notes that the resident had, “fallen out of bed.” The surveyors interviewed the previous Director of Nursing, who stated, “he remembers the resident had a fall with injuries. He recalled the previous Administrator completing an investigation [stating it was the Administrator who] was responsible for notifying the New York State Department of Health.” The Director stated that “he knew if a Care Plan was not followed and the resident was injured it should be called into the [Department of Health] immediately.”

Need to Hold Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Accountable for Neglect? We Can Help

Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse or neglect while residing at Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing? Contact the New York nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Onondaga County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Minoa.

We provide every potential client a free initial case consultation and offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means you will not pay us anything until after we have secured a monetary recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.

Sources:

• Inspection Report - 02/09/2018