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This long-term care center is a 78-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Amelia and Clermont County, Ohio. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
3434 State Route 132
Amelia, Ohio 45102
(513) 797-5144
The federal government and the state of Ohio are authorized to penalize any nursing home with monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services when the facility has been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Sunrise Manor and Convalescent Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include an $8,775 fine on August 11, 2017, and a $3,214 fine on January 11, 2017, for a total of $11,989.
The nursing home also received five complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Ohio and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.
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.
According to investigators, “the facility failed to implement Physician ordered interventions to prevent falls for [one resident] reviewed for falls.” The surveyors reviewed the resident’s medical records that revealed: “the resident last had a fall on July 17, 2017, was no documented injuries.” Three months later, on October 5, 2017, the resident was observed “lying in bed with the door open.” The resident’s “bed did not appear to be in the lowest position, and no padding of any kind was on the floor around the bed.”
The investigators interviewed a State-Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) who stated that the resident “was not lowered in their no bean bags or pads by his bed.” The STNA stated, “she checked with the nurse and found out that [the resident] did have an order” for those items to minimize the potential of injury from a fall.
The STNA also confirmed that “she was mistaken and that [the resident] should have bean bags by his bed while in bed.” The Director of Nursing verified that the resident’s “Kardex did not reflect the order to place bean bags next to the resident’s bed. The Director also verified that all residents bed should be kept lowered while the residents are in bed and stated she would not need to be on the Kardex report for the aides.” This deficiency substantiates “complaint number OH 675.”
In a separate summary statement dated August 11, 2017, the surveyors documented that the nursing home “failed to ensure [a resident] was provided with adequate supervision resulting in an avoidable fall. This [failure] resulted in actual harm when [the resident] experienced an avoidable fall and suffered a nasal fracture.”
A review of the resident’s Fall Risk Care Plan revealed a “personal history of falls and is at high risk for future falls related to activity intolerance, impaired respiratory/cardiac status, the use of high-risk medications, dementia, and occasional incontinence.” A review of the Hospital Emergency Room Instruction stated August 8, 2017, revealed the resident “was treated and released back to the nursing facility.” The resident “was treated for a closed nasal fracture, [nosebleed], chronic anticoagulation, fall, and facial bruising.”
While the resident’s Acute Care Plan dated August 8, 2017, revealed that the resident “had a nasal fracture [their work] no other specific details available were located in the chart review specifically related to the [resident’s] fall on August 7, 2017.”
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Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while residing at Sunrise Manor and Convalescent Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Clermont County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Amelia.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home