The New York State Department of Health recently released its statement of enforcements for the period of July, 2011 through December, 2012. The document lists fines levied against nursing homes and similar facilities throughout the period. The fines are the result of certification surveys taken over a span of several years prior to the enforcement […]
Archives for 2013
Schnurmacher Center Cited for Failure to Prevent Pressure Sores
Schnurmacher Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, located in White Plains, was the subject of a Department of Health Certification Survey in July of 2012 for several deficiencies. Among the failurles reported by the DOH was a failure to properly prevent and treat pressure ulcers. The female resident described in the report suffers from high blood […]
Westchester Nursing Home Fails to Prevent Wandering
Westchester Meadows, a nursing home based in Valhalla, NY, drew a deficient rating from the Department of Health in a certification survey dated June of last year. The Department found that the facility failed to keep the resident environment as free of accident hazards as possible. Specifically, the report notes that Westchester Meadows failed to […]
Spring Creek Rehab Receives Citation For Failing to Treat Bedsores
Brooklyn nursing home Spring Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center made news in September of last year when the Department of Health cited it for failure to prevent and/or heal bedsores (sometimes called pressure sores, pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers). The finding involved one resident, with the DOH noting that the failure created the potential […]
Nursing Home Administrator Fired Over Alleged Sexual Abuse of 91 Year-Old Resident
The administrator of Loudonville Nursing Home in upstate New York has been fired as a result of a sexual abuse charge levied against a maintenance worker at the home. Investigators claim that the worker sexually assaulted a 91 year old woman while in her room. The maintenance worker faces felony sexual abuse charges, and the […]
Brooklyn Nursing Home Fails to Prevent Elopement of 85 Year-Old Dementia Patient
In an April, 2011 deficiency report, the Department of Health cited Hopkins Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, a Brooklyn nursing home, for the failure to maintain an environment as free of accident hazards as possible. Specifically, Hopkins failed to ensure that residents at risk for elopement were properly monitored. This failure led to the wandering […]