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This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Vacaville and Solano County, California. The 87-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
101 S Orchard Ave
Vacaville, California 95688
(707) 448-6458
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In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Orchard Post Acute Care offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
The state and federal investigators have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home that has been cited for a serious violation that harmed or could have harmed a nursing home resident. Typically, these penalties include imposed monetary fines and denial of payment for Medicare services.
This nursing facility received ten complaints and self-reported two 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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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of California 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, 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 provide adequate supervision and assistance to prevent accidents for [one resident] when a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) transferred [the resident] from a wheelchair to a bed using a mechanical lift without assistance from a second staff member, as required by facility policy. This failure placed [the resident] at risk for accidents such as falls during the operation of the mechanical lift.”
At 10:55 AM on December 5, 2017, a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) transferred the resident “from her wheelchair to her bed using a mechanical lift.” While performing the transfer without assistance, or in the presence of another CNA or nurse, the CNA “completed the transfer” and “was asked how she had been trained to perform a resident transfer using a mechanical lift.” The CNA replied that “she had been trained to use two staff to perform the transfers with another CNA.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies dated October 12, 2016, the facility “failed to ensure the safety of [one resident] when she was transferred from the wheelchair to the bed using a mechanical lift by one Certified Nursing Assistant. This failure resulted in [the resident] sliding to the ground and fracturing a bone in her upper leg.”
The resident was interviewed while “lying on her back in bed with her right leg immobilized from the base of her toes to her thigh.” The resident stated that the CNA “was transferring her from a wheelchair to her bed using a stand lift when ‘my left knee went out, so I tried to stabilize myself, and then my right knee when out.’”
An x-ray report indicated that the resident had “a fracture involving the distal femur (end of the thighbone near the knee).”
The facility “failed to meet professional standards when wound treatment was not administered as ordered by the Physician for [one resident]. This failure had the potential to delay wound healing and place the resident at risk for infection.”
The Director of Nursing confirmed “wound care should be documented each time it was done, and it was not documented” as required. This deficient practice was also a failure of the facility’s policy titled: Dressings – Sterile/Non-sterile that reads “document date, time, and procedure on the resident treatment sheet.”
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Orchard Post Acute Care? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Solano County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Vacaville.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home