Many families have no other option than to entrust the step in a nursing home to provide their loved one quality care during. Sadly, many of these residents become the victims of mistreatment as a result of a lack of following established rules of protocol. Typically, these cases result in severe harm or wrongful death.
If your loved one was mistreated or abused while residing in a Darke County nursing facility, the Ohio Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys can help. Let our team of lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you seek justice and hold those responsible for the harm legally and financially accountable. We can begin working on your case today to ensure you receive compensation for your injuries.
This long-term care home is a "for profit" 99-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Greenville and Darke County, Ohio. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
1096 North Ohio Street
Greenville, Ohio 45331
(937) 548-1138
Rest Haven Nursing Home
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Rest Haven Nursing Home offers other services. Additional focused care includes Alzheimer’s/dementia care, orthopedic care, nutritional support, IV (intravenous) therapy, in-house dialysis, pulmonary care, wound care, tracheostomy care, terminal care, and restorative care including physical, occupational and speech therapies.
State and federal investigators have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home cited for serious violations of regulations and rules. These penalties include levying monetary fines and denying payment of Medicare services. Typically, these violations result in penalties when investigators found severe problems that harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Rest Haven Nursing Home for $141,594 on August 09, 2017, citing substandard care. The nursing home also received one complaint and self-reported one serious problem over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
Our attorneys review data on every long-term and intermediate care facility on Medicare.com and the Ohio Department of Public Health website.
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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The nursing home “failed to ensure a cognitively impaired resident was free from physical abuse by a family member during visitation. This [failure] resulted in an Immediate Jeopardy in the potential for psychosocial harm for [one resident] went on July 1, 2017, [a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) observe the resident’s family member], with a history of physical abuse toward [the resident] pushing on her throat multiple times.”
During the incident, the “resident expressed he was hurting her, asked him to stop several times and was observed to look scared. After this occurred, the facility failed to take immediate action to prevent future occurrences in protect the resident from abuse.”
Documentation shows that an LPN observe the family member yelling and twisting the resident’s right arm, “while the resident was yelling out for help that he was hurting her.” The resident expressed fear of the family member “returning and being alone immediately following the occurrence.”
The nursing home “failed to report and investigate an incident of physical abuse for a cognitively impaired resident and ensure she was free from physical abuse by a family member during visitations.”
The state investigators documented that the facility “failed to properly secure a resident’s medication. Additionally, the facility failed to properly store potentially hazardous laundry chemicals. This [failure] had the potential to affect sixteen residents identified by the facility as resident having cognitive deficits and are independently mobile.”
The survey team observed a resident in the resident’s room where there was “a medication cup containing two white tablets and one red capsule” that was left by the resident’s bedside table. There was “no staff in the resident’s room or in the 400 Hallway at the time of the observation.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Rest Haven Nursing Home ? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Darke County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Greenville.
It is always free to discuss your case with our legal team. We provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you will owe us nothing until we can secure financial recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home