Do you suspect that your loved one is being mistreated while living in a Kay County nursing facility? Were you concerned that their facility-acquired bedsores or injuries from a fall could have been prevented had the staff followed the established protocols? If so, contact the Oklahoma Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention.
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This long-term care center is a 96-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Ponca City and Kay County, Oklahoma. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
2024 Turner Road
Ponca City, Oklahoma 74604
(580) 765-3364
Federal and state investigators can penalize any nursing home that has violated rules and regulations that resulted in harm or could have resulted in the harm of a resident. These penalties include imposing monetary fines and denying payment for Medicare services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Shawn Manor Nursing Home for $10,226 on December 15, 2016, citing substandard care.
This nursing home also received two complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Oklahoma Long Term Care Provider Inspection Search Website.
Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Oklahoma 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 two out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and one out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state investigators, the facility “failed to ensure a resident was free from mental abuse” involving “a resident reviewed for abuse, neglect, and exploitation.”
The “resident had been photographed with a cell phone by a staff member. The face of the resident, named in the allegation, was swapped with the face of the staff member. The photo had a caption which read, ‘omg, omg, I look like a gorilla. The photo was then posted to a social media site. This [action] resulted in past noncompliance harm.”
The deficient practice by the nursing staff had the potential to affect all twenty-eight residents that resided in the facility that were identified by the Administrator.
A review of the resident’s Quarterly Assessment documented that “the resident was severely impaired with cognitive skills for daily decision-making and requires extensive assistance with transfers and activities of daily living. The resident was unable to be interviewed due to her cognitive status.”
One “Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) involved in the incident resigned before the investigation of the incident was initiated.” The administration terminated the other CNA involved in the incident. On the same day, “the Director of Nursing was terminated by the administration.”
The “facility owner conducted phone interviews with current and former employees who [knew about] the incident.” Ten cognitive resident questioned documented that “the facility conducted interviews to see if residents felt safe and knew who they can talk to if they felt they had endured abuse.”
The state investigators asked the Administrator “if the staff were told that they could not take photos of the residents. She stated, ‘No, not that she could recall.’ The Administrator verified that it was the Director of Nursing “who was the Abuse Coordinator for the facility” at the time of the incident.
The investigative team interviewed the resident’s husband and asked “how his wife would feel about the photo if she had seen it. He stated he had received numerous phone calls from friends who’d seen the photo on social media.” The husband stated, “this would have humiliated my wife. His friends had told him about the caption under the photo.”
The husband stated that “this was such a hurtful act for someone to due to his wife and she never did anything to hurt others. He stated that she could not speak, but she was aware of what was going on around her. He stated that he could not understand why the Director of Nursing had not taken action when she had been told and shown the photos of his wife.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Shawn Manor Nursing Home? Contact the Oklahoma nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Kay County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Ponca City.
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