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This long-term care center is a "for-profit" 146-certified bed home providing cares to residents of Riverside and Riverside County, California. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
4000 Harrison Street
Riverside, California 92503
(951) 785-6060
Riverwalk Post Acute Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Riverwalk Post Acute Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $17,051 for substandard care
The state of California and the federal government are legally responsible for monitoring each nursing home and impose monetary fines and deny payments through Medicare if serious violations have been identified. These penalties are typically imposed when the violation is severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Riverwalk Post Acute Nursing Center for $17,051 on October 24, 2016, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received twenty-eight complaints and self-reported four severe issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every California long-term care home from various online publically available sources, including the Department of Public Health website and Medicare.gov.
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 three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "facility failed to provide five residents, in a universe of 137, an environment free from verbal and physical abuse from [an aggressive resident]. This failure resulted in injuries and feelings of being unsafe and placed the resident in jeopardy [that involved] a severe and negative psychosocial response due to the ongoing presence of an unsupervised resident who could continue to hurt residents while at the facility.”
The Administrator and Director of Nursing “were made aware of the observation, interviews, and documented evidence of [the aggressive resident’s] ongoing behaviors toward facility residents.” The Administrator and Director of Nursing “were informed of the lack of sufficient measures in place to prevent an increasing environment of physical abuse from [the aggressive resident].”
The state investigators determined that “due to the facility’s failure to provide an environment free from physical abuse from [the aggressive resident], the Administrator and Director of Nursing were verbally notified of an Immediate Jeopardy situation.” As a result, the investigators conducted an unannounced visit “at the facility to investigate two complaints regarding resident-to-resident abuse.”
In one incident, a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) stated that the aggressive resident “was blind and could be aggressive.” The CNA said that “the nurses were supposed to take him when he went outside his room.”. She stated “[the aggressive resident] would try to hit when somebody was in his pathway.”
At one point, the resident “was observed sitting in a wheelchair at the corner of the outside patio. There were two residents by the shaded area of the patio and three more residents a few feet away from [the aggressive resident]. There was no staff member present on the outside patio.”
Another resident stated that she knew the aggressive resident and said that “she did not want to mess up with him, pointing at [the aggressive resident, stating] ‘if he felt you were near, he will hit you.’” This resident stated that the aggressive resident “would wheel over anybody who tried to be in his way. She stated she heard he hit a female resident, who fell and died.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury or died prematurely while living at Riverwalk Post Acute Nursing Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Riverside County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Riverside.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home