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This facility is a "for-profit" 133-certified bed long term care center providing cares and services to residents of Van Nuys and Los Angeles County, California. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating home is located at:
7447 Sepulveda Blvd
Van Nuys, California 91405
(818) 787-3400
Windsor Terrace Health Care Nursing Facility
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Windsor Terrace Health Care Nursing Facility offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Both the state of California and federal agencies are legally obligated to monitor every nursing facility and impose monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare when investigators as found the nursing home seriously violated established nursing home regulations and rules.
This nursing facility received twenty-seven complaints and self-reported three serious issues over the last three years 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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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of California 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, two 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 develop and implement resident-specific and relevant interventions after a fall incident.” Additionally, the nursing home “failed to complete neuro checks after two unwitnessed falls and failed to provide adequate supervision for [one resident].” These deficient practices “resulted in repeated falls and placed the resident at risk for injury or harm.”
The state investigators reviewed the resident’s medical records and Fall Scene Investigation Report that indicated that just after noon, the resident “was found on the floor in a lying prone position.” The report indicates that the resident “was trying to move from the bed to the chair, lost balance, and slid on the floor.” At that time, the resident was “alone and unattended.”
A report indicates that the resident “has impaired vision, strays off the street path of walking, changes gait patterns when walking through doorways, has lurching, swaying, or a slapping gait and has decreased muscle coordination.” The resident is also “at moderate risk for falls.”
A review of the medical records indicated that after the resident had fallen, there was “no documented evidence that a neuro check was performed.”
The “facility failed to provide interventions timely, failed to document interventions implemented to address the pain, and failed to update the Plan of Care, including interventions to address the resident’s complaints of pain after a fall incident.”
A review of the resident’s medical records indicate that the resident documented above had fallen and complained of pain in the left shoulder upon movement. The nursing staff had been directed to administer a dose of pain-relieving medication and used ice packs. However, a review of the clinical records indicates that “there was no documentation the pain medication was offered and administered to relieve the resident’s pain, or any interventions provided at the time of the fall to address the resident’s left shoulder pain.”
Additionally, the Care Plan was “not updated and did not reflect specific approaches to address or minimize the resident’s pain.”
Was your loved one mistreated while residing at Windsor Terrace Health Care Nursing Facility? 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 Van Nuys.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Illinois Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home