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This nursing facility is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Westport and Fairfield County, Connecticut. The 120-certified bed long-term care center is located at:
1 Burr Road
Westport, Connecticut 06880
(203) 226-4201
Westport Rehabilitation Complex
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Westport Rehabilitation Complex offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, cardiac care, enteral nutrition, pain management, respite, post-trauma, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $21,461 for substandard care
Connecticut and federal agencies are duty-bound to monitor every nursing home and levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators identify serious violations of nursing home regulations and rules. In some cases, the nursing home receives multiple penalties if surveyors find severe violations that harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Westport Rehabilitation Complex, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $7,296 fine on February 05, 2019, and a $14,165 fine on December 01, 2016, for a total of $21,461.
This nursing facility received eight complaints and self-reported eight serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive Connecticut Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Connecticut 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 three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to ensure that the facility manages resident trust funds that were not misappropriated.” The investigation included one resident “without cognitive impairment” who identified that “he/she could only get a few dollars at the time from the resident trust fund.”
The survey team reviewed the undated Trust Fund Transaction list of transactions that identified that “the resident had $180 missing from his/her account.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies dated February 5, 2019, the facility “failed to ensure that residents were free from mistreatment and verbal or physical abuse.” This investigation involved a resident who “had no memory problems, was totally dependent on one-person for positioning while in bed and with dressing and had behavioral symptoms of resistance.”
A Nurse’s Note dated June 2, 2018, identified that there was “an allegation of rough handling reported to the Nurse Supervisor, which occurred when a Nurse Aide was attempting to reposition [a resident] in bed. The note indicated the resident reported the Nurse Aide dragged [the resident] while turning and repositioning the resident, causing pain. When [a resident] informed the Nurse Aide that her actions caused pain, the Nurse Aide stated, ‘I did not hurt you,’ said something in her native tongue, smirked, and walked away from [the resident].”
A Reportable Event Form that was documented nineteen minutes later identified the same resident had “reported the Nurse Aide was rough during care. The report indicated [that the resident] had requested to be adjusted in bed, and while attempting to reposition [the resident, the Nurse Aide yanked the resident] very hard, causing harm to the resident and then laughed at the resident.”
A second Nurse Aide “was in the room at the time of the incident and heard [the resident] scream out and say, ‘Stop, you are hurting me, you are so rough to me, and I did not do anything wrong.’”
Were you the victim of harm, mistreatment, neglect, or abuse while living at Westport Rehabilitation Complex? Contact the Connecticut nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Fairfield County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Westport.
Our legal team offers every client a free, initial case consultation. Additionally, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means you do not owe us anything until we have secured a monetary compensation on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices concerning your financial recovery case will remain confidential.
Sources:
Attorney Nicholas E. Wocl
Licensed in Connecticut
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home