Highfield Gardens Care Center of Great Neck received 32 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 5, 2020. The Great Neck nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the […]
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Nassau Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Cited, Fined $18,000
Nassau Rehabilitation & Nursing Center received 26 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 6, 2020. The facility has also been the subject of a 2018 fine of $10,000 in connection to findings during a 2017 inspection that it […]
Hempstead Park Nursing Home Cited, Fined $18,000
Hempstead Park Nursing Home received 30 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on March 5, 2020. The facility has also been the subject of a 2012 fine of $10,000 in connection to findings during a 2009 inspection that it violated […]
Hopkins Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare Cited for Infection
Hopkins Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare received 23 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on January 21, 2020. The facility has also been the subject of a 2015 fine of $10,000 in connection to findings it violated health code provisions […]
Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home Cited for Pressure Ulcer Care
Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home received 39 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on January 10, 2020. The Hollis nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. The […]
Bezalel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Cited for Accident Hazards
Bezalel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received 25 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on January 9, 2020. The Far Rockaway nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. […]
Chapin Home for the Aging Cited over Abuse
Chapin Home for the Aging received 17 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on December 19, 2019. The Jamaica nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four inspections by state authorities. The deficiencies they describe include the following: 1. […]
The Emerald Peek Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Cited for Pressure Ulcer Violations
The Emerald Peek Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received 31 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 26, 2019. The Peekskill nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the […]
Bedford Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Cited for Pressure Ulcers
Bedford Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation received 36 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 22, 2019. It also received a Department of Health fine of $6,000, in September 2011, over alleged violations of sections of the health code […]
North Westchester Restorative Therapy and Nursing Center Cited for Medication Errors
North Westchester Restorative Therapy and Nursing Center received 14 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 26, 2019. The Mohegan Lake nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include […]
Sans Souci Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Cited for Medication Errors
Sans Souci Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received 15 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 29, 2019. The Yonkers nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of three inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the following: […]
The Grove at Valhalla Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Cited for Falls
The Grove at Valhalla Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received 27 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 29, 2019. The Valhalla nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include […]
Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Cited for Abuse
Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing received 30 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 14, 2019. The Bronx nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of five inspections by state surveyors. The violations they describe include the […]
The Citadel Rehab and Nursing Center Cited for Systemic Accident Hazards
The Citadel Rehab and Nursing Center at Kingsbridge received 19 citations for violations of public health laws between 2015 and 2019, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on November 14, 2019. Those citations include two that were found to cause immediate jeopardy to resident health, and one that authorities say reflected […]
Lawsuit: New York Nursing Home Residents Left Lying in Feces, Urine
A lawsuit in New York claims that a nursing home’s residents were forced to lie in their own feces and urine for extended periods of time. The class action suit filed in Syracuse, New York claimed that potentially hundreds or thousands of patients may have been affected by the nursing home, James Square Health and […]
HHS Inspector General: One in Four Cases of Elder Abuse Not Reported in Nursing Homes
The Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report stating that at least one in four instances of elder abuse or neglect are not reported. While horrific in scope, the results are not entirely surprising – other, smaller samples have found that 15 to 20 percent of elder abuse […]
AP: New York State Group Home Resident Found Infested with Maggots
A group home for the disabled, run by the State of New York, in Rome, N.Y. is facing calls for a federal investigation after an explosive report was leaked by the Associated Press detailing a resident who, on two separate occasions, was so severely neglected that he became infested with maggots. The resident, Steven Wenger, […]
Brooklyn Nursing Home Cited in Deficiency Report
Saints Joachim & Anne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home located in Brooklyn, NY, was cited in an October, 2013 certification survey issued by the Department of Health. Among the several deficiencies noted by the DOH was a failure to establish an infection control program at the facility. A nursing home must ensure that […]
Nursing Home Failed to Respect Residents’ Dignity by Not Providing Incontinence Care
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) cited the East Neck Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 300-bed facility located in West Babylon, New York, for failing to respect patients’ dignity by not providing timely and adequate incontinence care. According to a DOH report issued in April 2013, the nursing home failed to “promote care […]
Video Camera Captures Two Nurse Aides Taunting and Abusing Elderly Dementia Patient
Two certified nursing assistants (CNAs) at the Barnwell Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a 228-bed facility located in Valatie, New York, were caught on camera taunting and abusing an elderly dementia patient in August 2013. According to a New York State Department of Health investigation report, the two CNAs kicked, hit and yanked at dolls that […]
N.Y. Bedsore Attorney Alert: Department of Health Fines Brooklyn Nursing Home $22,000
Rutland Nursing Home, located in Brooklyn, was fined $22,000 by the Department of Health in March after a less than satisfactory deficiency report in February of last year. The individual deficiencies are too numerous to discuss here. Of note, though, the facility was cited for failure to properly prevent/heal pressure ulcers . A resident was […]
Bedsore Leads To Infection and Wrongful Death In Georgia Nursing Home
A Georgia jury recently awarded $1,250,000 in a nursing home case to a plaintiff who suffered bedsores (pressure sores, decubiti), weight loss, infection, and eventually death while a resident. The plaintiff-decedent developed a Stage IV bedsore on her buttocks that progreesed to the point where it infected the bone. At trial, the plaintiff introduced evidence […]