Nursing home negligence takes on many forms, where the nursing staff can misbehave, or other patients assault the resident because of a lack of supervision . Many nursing homes throughout North Carolina are understaffed, or the administration hires inadequately trained Nurses and Nurse' aides. Other nursing facilities did not follow acceptable practices for providing the utmost care.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Vance County nursing facility, contact the North Carolina Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This nursing facility is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Henderson and Vance County, North Carolina. The 60-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
2275 Ruin Creek Road
Henderson, North Carolina 27537
(252) 492-0066
NO WEBSITE
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Senior Citizens Home offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $77,087 for substandard care
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.
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 Senior Citizens Home for $77,087 on September 28, 2018, citing substandard care.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of North Carolina and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all deficiencies, 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, one out of five stars for staffing issues, and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "neglected to protect a cognitively impaired resident from harm that resulted in multiple bruises to her mid sternum, left arm, left axilla [the armpit] and left inner thigh on March 2, 2018.” Bruises were noted “to her left arm and left axilla” the following day.
On March 19, 2018, bruises were found “under her right breast, right axilla, right sternum, and under her right ribs that extended down to her right hip.” The state investigators determined that an Immediate Jeopardy situation began on March 2, 2018, when the resident “was noted to have bruising to her left arm, midsternal, left axilla, and left inner thigh.”
The Staff Development Coordinator stated that she recalled the resident “having a large area of bruising on her left side.” The coordinator stated that “she did not know what caused the area [and said] she does not investigate incidents. She said [if] she suspected a resident had been abused, she would report it to the Administrator.”
The investigators interviewed the resident’s Physician, who would call the bruising the resident had “significant in size. She said she thought the bruising had come from a witnessed fall or some type of trauma. She said the facility had informed her that the resident had not had any reports of falls.”
The resident’s Physician stated that they wanted to order x-rays. However, the resident refused. A Nursing Assistant stated that the resident “is a two-person standard pivot [patient] with transfers. She said the resident is not combative with care and needs help with her care.”
The facility Administrator stated that they had been in contact with the resident’s Physicians and “she had said that the bruising had come from the resident being combative with care.” The Administrator stated that they think “that the bruising had come from the resident being combative with care.” The Administrator believes that “the resident might have hit herself on the table and it had caused the bruising.”
Were you the victim of mistreatment while you lived at Senior Citizens Home? Contact the North Carolina nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Vance County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Henderson.
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Licensed in North Carolina
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