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This long-term care center is a 100-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Midwest City and Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
9221 Harmony Drive
Midwest City, Oklahoma 73130
(405) 869-0700
Sienna Extended Care and Rehabilitation Center
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, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Sienna Extended Care and Rehabilitation Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $9,828 fine on November 21, 2016, and a $53,719 fine on May 12, 2016, for a total of $63,547. During this time, Medicare denied payment on May 12, 2016, due to a lack of quality care.
The nursing home also received eight complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility 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 one out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and four out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state surveyors, “the facility failed to ensure an allegation of abuse was reported immediately after the occurrence.” The incident involved a moderately, cognitively impaired resident who “had an indwelling catheter and was occasionally incontinent of bowel.”
The survey team reviewed the facility state-reported incidents involving allegations of abuse. “There was no report for an allegation of abuse documented and sent to the Oklahoma State Department of Health which involved a resident.”
The state investigators asked a staff member who “worked in medical records” if “she was aware of any allegations of abuse reported by staff. She stated, ‘Yes, there was an allegation reported to a staff member [involving] cussing and hitting [a resident] on the bottom.’”
The survey team then asked the Director of Nursing “if she had been aware of any allegation of abuse which involved a resident. She stated, ‘Yes, and an investigation had been started on May 19, 2017, when it was reported, but she did not complete the incident report.’”
The Director of Nursing stated that “she did not consider it abuse because the informant kept changing her story.” The Director verified that the incident “had been reported to her as an allegation of abuse” and verified that “there should have been an incident report completed and sent to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.”
Seven days later on May 26, 2017, the facility did send an Initial State Incident Report for the allegation of abuse involving the resident” to the Oklahoma State Department of Health and regulatory agencies as required. Approximately two hours later, “the final report of the full investigation for the allegation of abuse involving the resident was sent to the Oklahoma State Department of Health and regulatory agencies.”
The state surveyors that asked the Director of Nursing, “her process of [what to do when] an allegation of abuse was reported. She stated the staff members involved would be suspended pending the investigation, statements from other staff and witnesses would be received, the resident safety surveys would be conducted, and the incident would be reported to the Oklahoma State Department of Health and other required agencies.” The Director verified that the report should have been submitted immediately.
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Sienna Extended Care and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Oklahoma nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Oklahoma County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Midwest City.
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