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 an Orange County nursing facility only to realize they been victimized through neglect or mistreatment by caregivers, employees, or other residents.If your loved one was injured or died prematurely while living in a nursing home, contact the New York Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Our team of dedicated abuse prevention lawyers has handled cases just like yours, and we can help your family, too. Contact us today so we can begin working on your case to ensure you receive financial compensation for your damages.
This nursing facility is a "for profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Goshen and Orange County, New York. The 120-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
46 Harriman Drive
Goshen, New York 10924
(845) 360-1200
Sapphire Nursing and Rehabilitation at Goshen
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Sapphire Nursing and Rehabilitation at Goshen offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term care, cardiac care, certified dementia care, long-term care, and recreation activities.
The state of New York and the federal government are legally responsible for monitoring each nursing home and imposing monetary fines and denying 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 Sapphire Nursing and Rehabilitation at Goshen for $145,022 on March 05, 2018, citing substandard care. This nursing facility also received eight complaints and self-reported three serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the New York State Nursing Home Report Website.
Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites, including the New York Department of Public Health 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, two out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that “the facility failed to ensure that adequate supervision and effective use of the facility’s monitoring program to prevent falls and injuries were provided for [one resident]. Specifically, monitoring checks and toileting assistants were not provided as care plan indicates and is recommended by the facility’s investigations to prevent further falls.”
As a result, the resident had eight falls in eight months, and the “facility did not implement recommended Care Plan changes for the supervision of the resident. Subsequently, on February 18, 2018, [the resident] fell and sustained a subdermal hematoma (STH; referring to a collection of blood between the skull and the outermost covering of the brain and usually associated with head trauma) following a fall. This [failure] resulted in actual harm that is not an Immediate Jeopardy.”
The moderately, cognitively impaired resident “used a wheelchair and did not walk in his room or the corridor during the assessment period. The MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment further indicated the resident did not have any falls during this assessment period.”
The investigative team reviewed the Occurrence Reports, Fall Interview Forms and Nurse’s Notes that documented “the resident experienced eight falls” for these falls “resulted in injuries.” On one occasion documented on August 9, 2017, the resident “was found lying on the floor on the right side of his bed.” The resident “sustained a skin tear to the left forearm, scratch to the lower left inner shin and was complaining of right-side mid-back pain.”
The fourth fall documented in the Occurrence Report noted that the resident was “observed lying on the floor in his room on his left side, his head next to the wall in between the dresser and the end of the bed.” The resident had a contusion that measured 3.0 cm x 2.0 cm on the left temple and “complained of the pain on the left shoulder.”
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Sources:
Attorney Jennifer Wilson
Licensed in New York
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home