Many families have no other choice than to place a loved one in a nursing facility to ensure they receive the highest level of professional care. These families often find comfort in the knowledge that their loved one will remain safe in a compassionate environment. Unfortunately, mistreatment is an all too common occurrence in many nursing facilities throughout Virginia, where caregivers, employees, or other residents injure patients.
The Virginia Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys have represented many Floyd County nursing home patients who were victimized through abuse and neglect. Our legal team works on behalf of our clients to help them receive adequate financial compensation to recover their damages. We use the law to take immediate action and hold those responsible for the harm legally accountable.
This long-term care home is a "for-profit" 90-certified bed center providing cares and services to residents of Floyd and Floyd County, Virginia. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
237 Franklin Pike Road, SE
Floyd, Virginia 24091
(540) 745-2016
Skyline Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Skyline Nursing and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, assisted and independent living options, medically-complex care, respiratory care, bariatric care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Both the state of Virginia and federal agencies penalize nursing homes by denying reimbursement payments from Medicare or imposing monetary fines anytime the facility is cited for a severe violation of established regulations and rules that harm or could harm residents.
The nursing home received one complaint over the last thirty-six months that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Virginia Adult Protective Services (APS) Website.
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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Virginia Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure an environment free of accident hazards for [one resident].” For this resident, “the facility staff failed to apply Physician-order Geri sleeves to the bilateral upper extremities.”
The investigators conducted an initial tour of the facility and found the resident “lying in bed. The surveyor observed that [the resident] had bruising on her bilateral arms between the wrist and elbows. The survey did not observe any Geri sleeves.” On the same day, approximately 1.5 hours later, the surveyor observed the resident again “lying in bed. The surveyor did not observe any Geri sleeves.”
The surveyor “walked to the nurse’s station and asked which nurse was assigned to take care of [this resident].” A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) stated that “she was assigned to care for [the resident] for the evening shift.” The surveyor reviewed the resident’s clinical record with the LPN and “pointed out the specific order for the Physician ordered Geri sleeves to be worn at all times.”
The surveyor “notified the Director of Nursing that Geri sleeves had not been on [the resident] on multiple occasions” and that the resident “had bruises on both arms.”
The nursing home “failed to ensure that [two residents] in a sample survey were free from unnecessary medications.” Specifically, “the facility staff failed to monitor for specific behavioral symptoms, effectiveness, side effects, and nursing interventions related to antidepressant drug use [and] antianxiety drug use.”
A review of the resident’s clinical records identified the medications the resident had been taking. However, “further review of the clinical record failed to produce monitoring for the antidepressant [and] anti-anxiety [drug use] to include specific behaviors, effectiveness, side effects, and nursing interventions.”
The Director of Nursing confirmed that the resident was taking and antidepressant and that the clinical record “failed to produce monitoring for the use of [the drugs].”
Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Skyline Nursing and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Virginia nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Floyd County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Floyd.
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