Every nursing home in Alabama has a legal obligation to provide each patient with the highest level of care according to established standards of quality. Unfortunately, many nursing staff will fail to follow the traditional procedures and protocols that can lead to preventable accidents, injuries, and the development of life-threatening bedsores.
If your loved one was injured while residing in Houston County nursing facility, contact the Alabama nursing home affiliate attorneys now for help. Our team of abuse prevention lawyers has successfully resolved many compensation cases just like yours, and we can help your family too.
This nursing center is a "non-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Dothan and Houston County, Alabama. The 166-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
718 Honeysuckle Road
Dothan, Alabama 36305
(334) 792-0921
Wesley Place on Honeysuckle Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Wesley Place on Honeysuckle Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care. The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, dementia, and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $8,128 for substandard care
The investigators for the federal government and state of Alabama nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal authority to impose monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services if the nursing facility is cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Wesley Place on Honeysuckle Nursing Center for $8,128 on July 07, 2018, citing substandard care. The nursing home received two complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Alabama Adult Protective Services Website.
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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Alabama long-term care home from various online publically available sources, including the Department of Public Health website and Medicare.gov.
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 three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure laundry staff covered resident’s personal clothes while transporting the clothes on the floor on July 26, 2017.” The nursing home also failed to ensure that “a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) washed her hands between glove changing when providing care to a resident on July 26, 2017. These deficient practices were observed on one of three days of the survey and affected [one resident] observed for incontinent care.”
At 7:36 AM on July 26, 2017, the survey team observed a Laundry Aide “passing out the residents’ personal clothes on South Hall 2.” The residents’ clothing was not covered at this time. Approximately one hour later, the survey team interviewed the Laundry Aide and asked, “how should the [residents’ clothing] be when it is brought from the laundry?” The Aide said she “had never been told [how] that she knew of.”
The Laundry Aide agreed that the “clothing rack containing the residents’ personal clothes yesterday morning [was not covered] when the surveyor observed her putting the clothes out.” The surveyor asked the Aide, “what would be considered when clothes were transported without being covered?” The Aide responded, “Infection Control.”
On a separate occasion, a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) “was observed providing incontinence care for [a resident].” After cleaning the resident’s front side, the CNA “removed her gloves and put on clean gloves, then continued with incontinence care.”
The CNA “did not wash her hands between changing gloves. Upon completing and before placing the clean brief, [the CNA] again changed gloves without washing her hands between changing gloves.” The survey team interviewed the CNA, who confirmed that the policy for changing gloves required gloves to be changed “after care and when gloves were dirty.”
The CNA verified that “she should sanitize in between,” but did not. The CNA also confirmed that there was harm in contagious bacteria when “not sanitizing between blood changes.”
Do you suspect that your loved one suffered injury or died prematurely while living at Wesley Place on Honeysuckle Nursing Center? Contact the Alabama nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Houston County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Dothan.
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Sources:
Attorney Brian Murphy
Licensed in Alabama
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Attorney Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home