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This Medicare/Medicaid-participating center is an 85-certified bed facility providing services to residents of Cumberland and Harlan County, Kentucky. The "for profit" long-term care (LTC) home is located at:
19101 Us Highway 119 North
Cumberland, Kentucky, 40823
Tri-Cities Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing around-the-clock skilled nursing care, Tri-Cities Nursing and Rehab Center offers other services. These services include occupational, physical and speech therapies, social services, respite care, wound management, respiratory care, pain management, diabetic management, and cardiac rehab.
The federal government and the state of Kentucky have the legal responsibility to levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if a facility has violated established regulations.
Within the last three years, nursing home regulators imposed a monetary fine of $29,160 against Tri-Cities Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on March 22, 2017, citing substandard care. Also, the facility received one formally filed complaint and self-reported one serious issue that both resulted in citations.
Additional information concerning this facility about penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Kentucky Department of Health Care Nursing Home Reporting Website.
Medicare.gov and the Kentucky Department of Public Health website routinely update the comprehensive list of health violations at facilities statewide.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state surveyors “determined the facility failed to maintain an effective infection control program for preventing and controlling infections or communicable diseases.” The state survey team observed staff who “failed to clean the blood glucose monitoring device [before] placing the device in the storage case.”
The surveyor said that “although the staff removed the device for cleansing/disinfection, the staff failed to clean/disinfect the storage case and placed the clean device back in the dirty case.” The Director of Nursing stated that “she randomly monitored to ensure staff cleans, disinfects the blood glucose monitoring equipment and had not identified any concerns.”
According to surveyors, the facility failed to ensure that two residents “received adequate supervision to prevent accidents/injury during smoking. In addition, the facility failed to provide an environment free from hazards.”
The surveyors observed the facility who “failed to store cleaning supplies, personal hygiene items, medication, and electrical appliances [by] the facility’s procedures.”
One incident involved a resident who had short/long-term memory loss with moderately impaired decision-making skills” who is a “chronic smoker who require supervision. Interventions include [evaluating] the resident’s ability to smoke safely on a consistent and regular basis to provide a smoking apron for the resident while smoking, and to place smoking materials at the nurse's station for storage.”
The survey team observed the resident “in the facility courtyard unsupervised two other residents who were observed to be smoking cigarettes.”
The state surveyors “determine the facility failed to ensure allegations of verbal abuse were reported immediately to the administration” concerning residents to “ensure their safety.” The incident involved a review of the facility’s investigation that shows that a State Registered Nurse Aide (SRNA) witnessed another SRNA using “abusive language toward [the resident] while providing care during their shift.”
A third SRNA witnessed the same SRNA using “abusive language toward [the resident] while providing care during their shift.” However, all witnessing SRNAs failed to report the allegation of abuse to the supervisor immediately as required by law.
Was your loved one the victim of mistreatment or neglect while living at Tri-Cities Nursing and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Kentucky nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 now. Our network of attorneys fights aggressively on behalf of Harlan County victims of mistreatment living in long-term facilities including nursing homes in Cumberland.
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Sources:
Attorney Carey Acerra
Licensed in Kentucky
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home