Many families are overwhelmed when they make the ultimate decision to place a loved one in a nursing home to ensure the quality of their life is maximized. They believe that they will receive the best care in a compassionate, respected, and safe environment. Unfortunately, not all members of the nursing team will uphold their responsibility and provide care that meets the resident’s needs.
If your loved one was injured while living in an Edgecombe County nursing facility, contact the North Carolina Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal help. Our team of abuse prevention lawyers can work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages. Let us begin working on your case today.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Tarboro and Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The 118-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
911 Western Boulevard
Tarboro, North Carolina 27886
(252) 823-2041
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Prodigy Transitional Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, diabetes management, IV (intervenous) care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $8,128 for substandard care
Federal investigators penalize nursing facilities with monetary fines and denied payment for Medicare when the nursing home had been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Prodigy Transitional Rehabilitation Center for $8,128 on August 10, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received one complaint over the last thirty-six months that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of North Carolina and federal government nursing home regulatory agencies routinely update their care home database system. This list contains historical information of all citations and violations.
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 one out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to follow correct loading procedures by not securing a resident’s wheelchair, while loading the resident into the transport van.” The deficient practice by the nursing staff “resulted in the wheelchair rolling backward off the lift, while the lift was in the raised position, resulting in a subdermal hematoma and multiple fractures.”
The investigation involved a cognitively intact resident who “had no behaviors [but] required extensive assistance for most of his activities of daily living.” The hospital History and Physical revealed that while the resident was being loaded into the wheelchair van in his wheelchair, “it rolled back, and he fell to the ground (approximately three feet in the air).”
The Director of Nursing stated that the resident “fell backward off of the van liftgate.” The staff responded immediately, assisting the resident “until the ambulance arrived to transport to a local hospital.”
The Clinic Nurse stated that “she was the first person with a rapid response team to arrive at the scene of the fall. The nurse stated [that the resident] was lying on his back, on a concrete walkway. She stated he was responding but not completely coherent.”
The Clinical Nurse said that there “was a moderate amount of blood on the back of the resident’s head, [adding that] it was enough blood that it required a dressing.” A second Clinical Nurse stated that the resident “could tell us about the pain but he could not tell us his name. He was in respiratory distress or any distress, but he was a bit diaphoretic (increased sweating).”
The workup at the hospital revealed that the resident had “a bilateral frontal subarachnoid hemorrhage, closed burst fracture [involving vertebrae] fractures [of] the right ribs seven, eight, ten, eleven and a left rib fracture of rib eight.” The resident remained hospitalized after treatment.
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Prodigy Transitional Rehabilitation Center? Contact the North Carolina nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Edgecombe County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Tarboro.
Our legal team offers every client a free, initial case consultation. Additionally, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means you do not owe us anything until we have secured a monetary compensation on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices concerning your financial recompense case will remain confidential.
Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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