Relocating a loved one from home or a hospital into a nursing facility can be the family’s most difficult decision if they are searching for a place that provides the best care in a comfortable, safe environment. Sadly, incidents of mistreatment by caregivers, visitors or other residents have increased significantly over recent years. Many times, abuse or neglect is the result of a lack of training, insufficient background checks, understaffing, a lack of supervision or the careless actions by trained professionals.
If your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living in a Hopkins County or Caldwell County nursing facility, contact the Kentucky Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of lawyers work on your behalf to ensure that your family receives adequate monetary recovery for your damages.
This long-term care (LTC) facility is a 60-certified bed center providing services to residents of Dawson Springs and Hopkins and Caldwell counties, Kentucky. The Medicare/Medicaid-participating "for profit" home is located at:
100 West Ramsey
Dawson Springs, Kentucky, 42408
(270) 797-8132
Tradewater Pointe Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Tradewater Pointe Nursing Center offers other services including physical, occupational and speech therapies, restorative care, and respiratory therapy.
Federal and state investigators can penalize any nursing home that has violated regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. These penalties include imposing monetary fines and denying payment for Medicare services.
Within the last three years, Tradewater Pointe Nursing Center self-reported a serious issue that resulted in a citation. Additional information concerning this nursing facility about fines and penalties can be found on the Kentucky Department of Health Care Nursing Home Reporting Website.
The state of Kentucky and the federal government regularly updates its long-term care home database system with complete details of all health violations. This data can be reviewed at Medicare.gov and the KY Department of Public Health website.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues and one out of five stars for quality measures. The Hopkins and Caldwell counties neglect attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center have found serious deficiencies and safety concerns at Tradewater Pointe Nursing Center that include:
The surveyors “determined that the facility failed to ensure a resident with pressure ulcers received the necessary treatment and services consistent with professional standards of practice to promote healing, prevent infection and prevent new ulcers from developing.” The deficiency involved two residents.
In one incident, the resident was care planned with an intervention “to float heels” using an air mattress to prevent bedsores. However, an observation was made of the resident on two different days when the resident’s “bilateral heels were lying directly flat on [their] mattress.”
The investigative team “determined the facility failed to ensure a resident with a urinary catheter received the appropriate care and services to prevent infections to the extent possible.” The survey team observed the resident “in bed with [their] urinary catheter bag laying on the floor. There was no dignity bag [to provide privacy] in place.”
According to investigators, “the facility failed to provide pain management for [one resident who] complained of pain [during] urinary catheter care and [fourteen minutes later during] pressure ulcer care.” However, “observation and documentation revealed the staff did not administer pain medication” to ease the resident’s intense sensation of pain.
The survey team “determined the facility failed to ensure residents receive team dental care from an outside source.” The investigators reviewed the “facility list of residents identified is not receiving dental services” which revealed “three residents” who had not received care” as required by accepted standards and regulations.
Was your grandparent, parent or spouse injured or did they die prematurely while living at Tradewater Pointe Nursing Center? Contact the Kentucky nursing home abuse attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 today for immediate legal intervention. Our network of attorneys fights aggressively on behalf of Hopkins and Caldwell County victims of mistreatment living in long-term facilities including nursing homes in Dawson Springs.
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Sources:
Attorney Carey Acerra
Licensed in Kentucky
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home