The mistreatment of the elderly living in nursing homes is disgraceful, unacceptable, and reprehensible. Many families entrust the care of their loved one to the nursing home staff only to be horrified when they realize that they are being mistreated, neglected, or abused by caregivers, employees, or other patients.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Pinellas County nursing facility, contact the Florida nursing home affiliate attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This facility is a 120-certified bed "for-profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Tarpon Springs and Pinellas County, Florida. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
900 Beckett Way
Tarpon Springs, Florida 34689
(727) 934-0876
Peninsula Care and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Peninsula Care and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care and the Breathe Life Respiratory Program.
Fined $6,662 for substandard care
Both the federal government and the state of Florida have the legal responsibility to levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if a nursing home violates established rules and regulations that harm or could have harmed residents.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Peninsula Care and Rehabilitation Center for $6,662 on March 22, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received two complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
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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.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to treat each resident with dignity by not providing care related to answering call lights timely for [two residents].” The facility “failed to perform activities of daily living such as toileting, resulting in the embarrassment of residents.”
In one case, a cognitively intact resident “was assessed to require the extensive assistance of two staff members for bed mobility, and to be dependent on two staff members for transfers, and one staff member for toileting. [The resident] was assessed to have occasional incontinence of bowel and was continent of urine.”
The resident’s Care Plan indicated that the resident experienced “occasional occurrences of incontinence related to weakness and the need for extensive assistance for transfers and toileting.” The resident wore incontinence briefs.
The survey team interviewed the resident’s wife, who stated that “when she came in last night (April 15, 2019), her husband was wet with urine. She said that he told her that no one had changed him after he was put to bed. She also reported that she has come into the facility many times to find that her husband was wet with urine or soiled with a bowel movement and that it is very embarrassing for him.”
The wife indicated that “when she asked him if he calls for assistance, he tells her that he has, but they do not answer the call light, or they tell him they will come back.” The wife said that when she comes in, “she makes sure that her husband’s clean and dry before letting the CNAs get him out of bed, or before she leaves at night to go home.”
The wife said that “she works as a nurse’s assistant and knows that he needs to be checked more frequently to prevent the breakdown of the skin. She is afraid that he will have skin breakdown, resulting in a wound, and that will keep him from returning home for an even longer time period then he already has been away from her.”
The resident asked the resident’s wife if she would perform a call light check. The resident’s light came on at 3:01 PM. However, an LPN answered the call at 3:20 PM, saying “it was a shift change, and everyone was in the process of the shift report.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment while you lived at Peninsula Care and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Pinellas County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Tarpon Springs.
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Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home