Some statistics show that more than one million Americans currently live in nursing homes. Many of these patients are our mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, children, and friends. Families often relocate their loved one into a nursing home believing that they will receive the best care and improve quality of life in a safe environment.
Unfortunately, mistreatment still occurs in many nursing homes, including those in Los Angeles County. If your loved one was injured or died prematurely while residing in a nursing home, contact the California Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This center is a 99-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, California. The "for-profit" long-term care home is located at:
3533 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90034
(310) 836-8900
Windsor Care Center of Cheviot Hills
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Windsor Care Center of Cheviot Hills 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, post-stroke care, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $23,755 for substandard care
The investigators for the state of California and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal responsibility of penalizing any facility that has violated rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. These penalties often include monetary fines and denying payment of Medicare services. Typically, the higher the penalty, the more egregious the problem.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Windsor Care Center of Cheviot Hills for $23,755 on May 09, 2018, citing substandard care. This nursing home received thirteen complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the comprehensive California Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Website.
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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every California 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 four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined the nursing home "failed to provide the low bed with landing mats as planned by the interdisciplinary team (IDT) meeting for [one resident. The resident] had an actual fall incident at the facility and sustained a laceration (skin cut) to the right forehead. The facility failed to implement the IDT recommendation. The deficient practice had the potential to cause injury to the resident when falling.”
As a result, the investigators made an unannounced visit “to the facility to investigate an entity-reported incident regarding quality of care.” During the investigation, the surveyors toured the facility and observed the resident “sitting on his bed, eating lunch. with a small laceration on his right forehead from a previous fall. The bed was at regular height, not low and close to the floor, and no floor mats were observed on the floor beside the bed.”
The “facility staff failed to ensure [one resident received medical treatment] as ordered by the physician.” The resident had a scheduled dialysis medical treatment where excessive fluids and waste products are removed from the blood using a dialyzer and machine. The nursing staff failed to provide dialysis on “three separate occasions due to a failure by the facility staff to provide a sling for a Hoyer lift, [which was] needed and required for transferring the resident from his wheelchair to his treatment chair.”
The facility also failed to “ensure there was a written contract between the facility and [the medical treatment unit] for the services to be provided. These deficient practices resulted in [the resident] not receiving [medical treatment] as scheduled, which could cause complications to the resident and other residents receiving [the same treatment].”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Windsor Care Center of Cheviot Hills? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Los Angeles County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Los Angeles.
Our law firm provides every potential client an initial free case consultation. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning you do not owe us any money until we have received a monetary recovery on your behalf.
Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Illinois Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home