Any mistreatment of the senior citizen in a nursing facility can constitute neglect or abuse if it occurs at the hands of caregivers, employees, family members, friends, or other patients. Every member of the nursing team and employee staff always has a legal responsibility to protect their residents and keep them safe in their environment.
If your loved one was injured while residing in a Johnston County nursing facility, contact the North Carolina Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation for your damages. Time is of the essence. All necessary documentation must be filed in the proper county courthouse before the statute of limitations expires.
This long-term care home is a 100-certified bed center providing care and services to residents of Clayton and Johnston County, North Carolina. The “for-profit” Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
195 Springbrook Avenue
Clayton, North Carolina 27520
(919) 550-7200
Springbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Springbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused attention includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, orthotics, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, muscle strengthening, pain management, hospice, transfer care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $108,549 for substandard care
Both the state of North Carolina 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.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Springbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for $108,549 on February 22, 2019, citing substandard care. The nursing home received six complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
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 federal government nursing home regulatory agencies routinely update their care home database system. This list contains historical information of all 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, three out of five stars for staffing issues, and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to conduct initial and weekly wound assessments which included measurements and descriptions of the wound bed, tunneling, or undermining, possible necrosis/infection, drainage, odor, and pain.”
The investigation involved three residents “with pressure ulcers. No initial or weekly wound assessments were completed for [one resident’s] right heel ulcer from December 16, 2018, when it was identified until January 8, 2019, when a Quality Assurance Skin Review documented the sore.” The pressure wound measured 4.5 cm x 3.5 cm “to the resident’s right heel.” The ulcer had “purulent drainage.”
No initial or weekly pressure ulcer assessment, “which included measurements and descriptions of the wound bed, tunneling, or undermining, possible necrosis/infection, drainage, odor, and pain were completed for [a second resident] from November 28, 2018, when a blister opened on her right heel, through her discharge from the facility of February 7, 2018.”
Instead, the wound was discovered by Home Health Services that day. The pressure ulcer “was determined to be a Stage III pressure ulcer that measured 2.0 cm x 2.0 cm x 0.5 cm with drainage.”
The “facility failed to handle dirty linen in a sanitary manner by placing it on the floor.” The nursing home “also failed to handle dirty linen in a sanitary manner when a Nursing Assistant was observed carrying unbagged dirty linen against her chest down the hallway and into the dirty linen room.”
The Nursing Assistant had stated that “she just provided care to the resident and [that the] linens on the floor were the linens she had used.” A facility nurse stated that “dirty linens should be placed in a bag and thrown on the floor, [indicating that] plastic bags were always available for Nursing Assistants to put the dirty linens in.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Springbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the North Carolina nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Johnston County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Clayton.
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Attorney Carl R. Wilander, Esq.
Licensed in North Carolina
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