Families deciding to place a loved one into a nursing home are often overwhelmed at the thought that they will not receive the best care. Unfortunately, mistreatment occurs at many facilities nationwide, including in California.
If your loved one was injured while living in a Solano County nursing facility, 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 financial compensation to recover your damages. All the necessary paperwork must be filed in the proper county courthouse before the statute of limitations expires.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for-profit" center providing services to residents of Vallejo and Solano County, California. The 166-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
2200 Tuolumne Street
Vallejo, California 94589
(707) 644-7401
Windsor Vallejo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Windsor Vallejo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
The state and federal investigators have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home that has been cited for a serious violation that harmed or could have harmed in nursing home resident. Typically, these penalties include imposed monetary fines and denial of payment for Medicare services.
Within the last thirty-six months, Medicare denied payment on March 14, 2018, due to a lack of quality care. This nursing facility received twelve complaints and self-reported ten 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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Information on every intermediate and long-term care home in the state can be reviewed on government-owned and operated database websites including the California Department of Public Health 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 "did not follow their policy and procedure for physical restraints for [one resident, who] was tied to his wheelchair to prevent him from falling. This failure created the potential for serious injury to the resident.” The resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment indicated that the severely impaired resident “needed extensive assistance for his activities of daily living, except for eating.” The assessment “also indicated a physical restraint was not used for [the resident].”
The state investigators observed the resident while “alert, but confused, try to stand up and only saying the words repeatedly ‘thank you, mom.’” An unlicensed staff member stated that “she came to work around 5:00 AM on December 24, 2016 and saw [the resident] tied to his wheelchair with a white bedsheet around his body, which was tied to the back of his wheelchair.”
The staff member stated that “she did not know how long the bedsheet had been tied to [the resident].” Another unlicensed staff member indicated that when she came to work on the night shift on December 23, 2016 “she had forty-seven residents to take care of.” The staff member stated that the resident “was one of her residents on that night. The resident was very confused and trying to get out of bed.”
The staff member stated that the resident “had already fallen twice during their shift, so she placed [the resident] in his wheelchair and put them in front of the nurse’s station.” A third staff member “came around and wrapped him in a bedsheet, which she tied to the back of the resident’s wheelchair.” The night shift staff left the resident’s body still wrapped in the bedsheet after leaving their shift.
The second night shift staff member stated that “they did not have enough staff to take care of [the resident] who was quick on standing up.” A review of the facility’s policy and procedure titled: Physical Restraints from November 2006 indicates that “residents receive care and services necessary to improve the quality of life, promote independence, and maintain functional capacity in an environment that prohibits the use of physical restraints unless it is unavoidable [and] necessitated by medical symptoms.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while living at Windsor Vallejo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the California nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Solano County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Vallejo.
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Sources:
Attorney Anthony Lanzone
Licensed in California
Illinois Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home