Nursing homes are often fined for various citations of nursing home neglect, but federal officials implemented a drastic punishment to a small Tulsa, Oklahoma nursing home by terminating their Medicare and Medicaid payments!
Woodland View Care and Rehabilitation Center, which cares for roughly 70 disabled and elderly patients, was cited with 40 violations during 12 inspections in the past year. Violations included failure to protect residents from abuse, failure to provide pain medications and other treatments as ordered by doctors, failure to sufficiently treat bedsores, failure to provide qualified staffing, failure to provide supervision to prevent accidents and six violations were due to incidents that placed residents’ lives in immediate danger. Inspectors also cited the home for the death of one patient, who had a fever for days before being found unresponsive in her bed. According to the report, Woodland’s employees were “rude” and “uncooperative” to paramedics who responded to the facility and were unable to find paperwork for the woman who had died.
Latricia Hamblin, a licensed practical nurse who worked at Woodland View for seven years, said, “They cut corners every chance they get. … It’s ridiculous for a billion-dollar, nationwide company.” The nursing home’s publicly traded parent company, Sun Healthcare Group Inc., operates more than 200 facilities nationwide and reported nearly $2 billion in revenues last year.
Nursing Home Sues over Citations
The nursing home and Sun Healthcare Group are fighting these violations of nursing home neglect. They are claiming that officials unfairly judged them and applied inappropriate standards to the home. They also alleged in court that officials abused their power and a state inspector inserted documents into a resident’s file to support the case against the nursing home.
The Sun Healthcare Group’s website lists six nursing home facilities in Oklahoma. Oklahoma law prohibits the operators of nursing homes from opening more facilities within the state after a facility has lost federal funding. Sun Healthcare would therefore not be able to expand within Oklahoma beyond the six facilities presently open. The case is currently on appeal to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court, which has permitted months of delay in the loss of funds and allowed the nursing home to continue to collect $3.7 million in federal payments.
Nursing Home Neglect Lawyers in New Jersey and Philadelphia
If your loved one is currently a resident of a nursing home or care facility and you are worried that the care they are receiving is negligent, abusive, or inadequate, contact the Mininno Law Office for a free case evaluation. You may also call for a free consultation at (856) 833-0600 in New Jersey, or (215) 567-2380 in Philadelphia.
The Avista Healthcare nursing home, located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey was routinely inspected twice between December 2008 and November 2010. During this time period, 10 separate deficiencies were cited. The nursing home was cited for failing to properly procure and serve food in a sanitary manner. As we have often highlighted in our previous posts, proper nutrition is imperative for good health and bedsore prevention in nursing home patients. 
The Manhattan View Nursing Home in Union City, New Jersey is a below average facility with 127 long term care beds. This is a for profit, corporately owned nursing home as well. Between December 2008 and November 2010, this Hudson County nursing home was routinely inspected 2 times. These inspections are conducted by the 
Burlington Woods is a nursing home with 227 long term beds. It is also a for profit, corporately owned and run nursing home. According to the 
The nursing home that we will discuss today is the Cumberland Manor nursing home located in Bridgeton, New Jersey. This nursing is a county government owned facility with 196 long term care beds. Medicare’s nursing home compare system gave this facility 2 out of 5 stars. This rating indicates that Cumberland Manor is a below average nursing home. 
Continuing our reports on average to low quality nursing homes in New Jersey, we have located a home in Union County with a well below average rating, according to the 
As we continue our series highlighting the below average nursing homes in New Jersey, today we will discuss a facility in Camden County. 
It is important, as 
This for-profit, corporately owned nursing home was cited for a variety of deficiencies from November 2008 through October 2010. The citations were in a wide variety of categories including, among others, nutrition/dietary needs, living environment, and pharmaceutical responsibilities. For example, it indicated that some residents were affected by the fact that the pharmacy made medication errors of more than 5%. These errors are defined as administering the wrong drugs, administering the wrong doses, or administering drugs ate the wrong times. Medication errors can lead to many serious health issues. 
The Lincoln Specialty Care Center has had 2 routine inspections between November 2008 and October 2010. During this time period, the facility had 57 cited deficiencies. At an average of 25 deficiencies per visit, the Lincoln Specialty Care Center acquired almost double the amount of citations that some of the other troublesome nursing homes we’ve discussed have acquired.