Chicago Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers: Chronic Nursing Home Neglect at Facility Forces Residents to Seek Other Housing
Over two dozen nursing home residents are being displaced because the Care Living Center of Edmond, a nursing home, is losing its Medicaid and Medicare funding. According to state health inspectors, the long-term care facility received citations for a number of deficiencies related to medical neglect and nursing neglect that they believe places residents’ welfare, health, and safety in imminent danger.
Incidents of nursing home neglect that were discovered at the US nursing home included failure to turn, feed, or clean certain residents. As a result, some of the nursing home residents had lost a lot of weight. Improper training of staff and failure to answer residents’ call lights were two other problems occuring at the long-term care facility.
Also, nursing home workers’ did not appear to be following medical instructions given by doctors, including monitoring patients’ blood pressure and blood glucose and separating nursing home residents with infectious disease from other patients. One nursing home patient that was not receiving the proper treatment prescribed by a doctor reportedly had 17 bedsores. Two nursing home residents managed to wander off the property and were found blocks away from the nursing home.
Medicare and Medicaid Funding
Medicare and Medicaid funding is provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. If state inspectors visit a nursing home three times and deficiencies cited the first time haven’t been remedied, the funding can be terminated.
Because Care Living Center is losing its funding, 12 Medicare patients and 17 Medicaid residents will have to move to another facility that qualifies for either of these health insurance programs. However, regardless of whether your loved one’s nursing home care is paid for privately or through Medicare or Medicaid, a nursing home is obligated to provide all residents with the proper medical attention and nursing care and in a safe environment that is free from nursing abuse or nursing home neglect.
Edmond inspection forces care home exodus, Newsok.com, May 22, 2009
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Nursing Home Deficiencies Explained, GilbertGuide.com
Related Web Resources:
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Nursing Homes in Illinoishttp://www.malmanlaw.com/lawyer-attorney-1214741.html
If this has not been the case, please contact our Chicago nursing home abuse law firm for a free consultation.
