Mistreatment in nursing facilities can be the result of unacceptable behavior by caregivers, assaulting patients, a lack of supervision, or neglect. Many nursing homes lack sufficient staff members or hire medical professionals that are not adequately trained. Other homes do not follow acceptable hiring practices an employee nursing staff with a history of mistreatment.
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This Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is a "for profit" center providing services to residents of Mount Gilead and Montgomery County, Ohio. The 75-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
841 W Marion Rd
Mount Gilead, Ohio 43338
(419) 947-2015
Woodside Village Care Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Woodside Village Care Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes wound care, IV (intravenous) therapy, tracheostomy care, pain management, tube feeding’s, dementia care, palliative care, hospice, stroke therapy, outpatient services, and restorative care involving 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.
The nursing home also received three complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional documentation concerning penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide.
To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Ohio 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 two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and one out of five stars for quality measures.
According to state surveyors, “the facility failed to ensure staff implement interventions to prevent the development of an at-risk resident’s newly identify pressure ulcer. This [failure] resulted in actual harm when [the resident] developed an avoidable stage III pressure ulcer was slough (dead cell/tissue) to the wound.”
The surveyors documented that the facility “also failed to timely and accurately assess a new pressure ulcer area for a resident at risk for skin breakdown.” This failure affected two other residents “reviewed for skin breakdown.”
The nursing home “failed to ensure oxygen tanks were replaced when indicated.” The deficient practice by the nursing staff affected one resident “reviewed for respiratory care.”
A review of the resident’s Care Plan included impaired gas exchange because of medical conditions in a history of pneumonia. The documentation “indicated the resident requires the use of oxygen continuously as ordered and refuses that time and to monitor oxygen.”
The survey team observed the resident “sitting in the dining room in his Broda chair (reclining chair). The resident was observed to have his oxygen cannula in his nose. Observations of the oxygen tank revealed the oxygen was set at 2.0 L.”
However, “the amount of oxygen that remained in the tank, the needle was pointing to the red zone, that indicated to ‘refill.’” The surveyors interviewed the Licensed Nursing Home Administrator who confirmed that “the resident’s oxygen take was on the red and was in the red ‘refill’ zone.”
The facility’s Director of Nursing revealed that an oxygen tank would last up to 2.5 hours and voiced that the resident “had just recently gotten up and the oxygen tank was in the red zone.”
The Director of Nursing voiced that her expectation would be for [the nursing staff to check the oxygen when the resident was gotten up and would have been to change the oxygen tank.”
Do you suspect that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment while residing at Woodside Village Care Center? Contact the Ohio nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Montgomery County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas including Mount Gilead.
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Sources:
Attorney Nancy Iler
Licensed in Ohio
Chicago Nursing Home Injury Lawyer Nursing Home Law Center LLC Home