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This long-term care facility is a 120-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating center providing services to residents of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County, Florida. The "for-profit" home is located at:
5065 Wallis Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33415
(561) 689-1799
Renaissance Health and Rehab Facility
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Renaissance Health and Rehab Facility offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $12,189 for substandard care
Florida nursing home regulators and federal inspectors have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home identified as violating rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. Typically, these penalties include monetary fines and denial of payment of medical services.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Renaissance Health and Rehab Facility, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $9,461 fine on March 22, 2017, and a $2,728 fine on March 22, 2017, for a total of $12,189.
The nursing home received four complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Florida Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Florida 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues, and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to reposition [the resident], per the Care Plan, every two hours for [one resident] observed for repositioning.” The investigators observed the resident “positioned on her back while in bed” at 10:52 AM on January 31, 2018. The resident “was also noted with left-sided weakness and a contracture of her left hand.”
Subsequently, at 12:56 PM the same day, “the surveyor made another observation” that the resident was “in the same position, on her back, and [that the resident] had not been repositioned.” By 2:57 PM that day, another observation was made again of the resident “lying on her back without being repositioned.”
By 4:58 PM, the cognitively impaired resident was “still lying on her back in the bed in the same position.” The resident “was not repositioned.” A review of the resident’s Care Plan indicated that the resident “had a wound to her coccyx (tailbone), needed assistance to be turned and repositioned every two hours and as needed.”
The resident’s records indicated that the patient was “totally dependent on staff for activities of daily living, including transfers and bed mobility.” The resident also had Physician’s orders to be repositioned every two hours.
The investigators interviewed the Assistant Director of Nursing, who stated that “[the resident] needed to be repositioned every two hours to relieve pressure to the wound and to prevent further complications to her tailbone area. [The Assistant Director] further added [the assigned Nursing Assistant] knew to reposition [the resident] every two hours.”
The survey team reviewed the facility’s policy and procedure manual for contracture prevention that had been revised in August 2017. The policy reads in part: “Residents who are unable to move themselves should be repositioned frequently, at least every two hours, when in bed.”
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Renaissance Health and Rehab Facility? Contact the Florida nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Palm Beach County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including West Palm Beach.
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Sources:
Attorney Blair N. Mendes, Esq.
Licensed in Florida
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home