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This long-term care home is a 93-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Perrysburg and Wood County, Ohio. The "for profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
28546 Starbright Blvd
Perrysburg, Ohio 43551
(419) 666-0935
Perrysburg Care and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Perrysburg Care and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes long-term care, short stay care, memory support, outpatient rehab, dementia care, psychiatric services, auditory care, colostomy care, and restorative care including physical, occupational and speech therapies.
Both the state of Ohio 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 Perrysburg Care and Rehabilitation Center for $6,500 on October 12, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing home also received seven complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
The state of Ohio and Medicare.com routinely update their comprehensive list of deficiencies online to reflect all violations
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and one out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state surveyors, “the facility failed to notify the family of the need for the start of the medication. This [deficient practice] affected one resident reviewed during Stage II of the survey.”
The survey team reviewed a resident’s medical record and Physician’s orders indicating that the resident began taking antidepressant medication as 7.5 mg each day. A review of the assessments and Nurse’s Notes between February 9, 2017, and March 1, 2017 “revealed there was no documentation of the notification of the [medication] provided to a family member.”
The survey team interviewed a family member who stated “she did not get notified of the medication change when [the resident] was started on new medication. She stated the medication was an antidepressant and was added a couple of weeks ago.” This failure was verified by the Director of Nursing.”
The facility “failed to follow Physician’s orders [involving a resident] reviewed for care and treatment.” The investigation involved a moderately, cognitively impaired resident who requires “extensive physical assistance for turn/reposition, eating, and hygienic care.”
The survey team reviewed the resident’s Medical Records that revealed “a severe decline in health status, the development of a Stage IV pressure ulcer to the sacrum and placement on a Hospice program.” The resident’s terminal prognosis was removed after the resident “graduated off the hospice program.”
The surveyors reviewed the resident’s Physician’s orders on treating a Stage IV [life-threatening] pressure ulcer. Part of the Physician’s orders indicated that the resident would receive in an evaluation in the Consul Wound Clinic for their sacral-coccygeal wound. However, reviewing the medical record revealed that there was “no consult contact made.” An RN confirmed that there were “was no wound consult completed as per the Physician’s orders.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse or neglect while living at Perrysburg Care and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Wood County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Perrysburg.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home