Many families have limited options on how to handle their loved one’s care who requires nursing assistants in a facility outside their home. Many of these family members choose to relocate their loved one into a Hartford County nursing facility only to realize they been victimized through neglect or mistreatment by caregivers, employees, or other residents.
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This nursing home is a Medicare and Medicaid-participating "for-profit" center providing care and services to residents of Glastonbury and Hartford County, Connecticut. The 130-certified bed nursing facility is located at:
72 Salmon Brook Drive
Glastonbury, Connecticut 06033
(860) 633-5244
NO WEBSITE
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Salmon Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $2,666 for substandard care
The investigators working for the state of Connecticut and the federal government had the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services if the nursing home has been cited for serious violations of established regulations and rules.
Medicare has cited this facility for abuse. Medicare says that “every nursing home resident deserves to retain their basic human dignity and be treated with respect at all times. Abuse and neglect are never acceptable.” Nursing homes “cited for abuse are required to take steps to protect their residents.”
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Salmon Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing for $2,666 on March 16, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing facility received five complaints and self-reported six serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Connecticut Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Connecticut 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 one out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues, and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to provide care [in a manner] that the resident did not feel abused, neglected, or mistreated.” This investigation involved a resident with short-term and long-term memory deficits, who “requires two-person assistance with turning and repositioning while in bed and transfers in and out of bed and [wheel]chair.”
The resident’s Care Plan indicated that the resident “was at risk for skin breakdown due to impaired mobility along with bowel and bladder incontinence.” The Reportable Event Form dated September 21, 2018, identified the Charge Nurse was “notified by a Nurse Aide that she had not done care on [the resident], at which time the Nurse Aide stated to the Nurse she should tell the other Nurse Aide to go in to take care of [the resident].”
The Charge Nurse realized that the resident “had not received incontinence care or had been repositioned. The report indicated the Charge Nurse and another Nurse Aide went into [the resident’s] room, changed, and reposition the resident. The report identified the Charge Nurse assessed the resident’s skin and found no redness and the skin was intact.”
The Nurse Aide “was suspended pending the investigation.” Eventually, the Nurse Aide “was suspended for three days, given a final written warning, and was educated on meeting the resident’s needs.” A Registered Nurse (RN) indicated that “on the morning of September 21, 2018, at approximately 6:45 AM, a Nurse Aide reported to him that she did not provide care to [the resident] during the night shift.”
At no time did the Nurse Aide “request assistance with providing care or inform the Charge Nurse that [the resident] did not receive incontinent care or was turned and repositioned until the end of the 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM shift.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Salmon Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing? Contact the Connecticut nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Hartford County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Glastonbury.
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Sources:
Attorney Nicholas E. Wocl
Licensed in Connecticut
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home