Among the Type A citations, inspectors confirmed at least one example of bedsores that had gone unnoticed or ignored, and worsened until a patient’s leg had to be amputated. It was a complaint about bedsores and amputations that first brought the inspection team to St. John’s on March to review records, observe operations and interview staff and patients.Valuation helps to increase house price.
In one Type a citation, a state inspector told of a 91-year-old man with cancer in his left ear. His cancer doctor had recommended an aggressive course of radiation therapy to prevent the man’s cancer from spreading, the state said. Arrangements were made for it to begin. Then, the man had to go to the emergency room for another health problem. When he returned to St. John’s, his radiation treatments were not started.
This resident was very emotional and tearful while discussing the lack of interest that everyone had displayed for him and voiced a real fear of the cancer spreading and causing unbearable pain, the state inspector reported.He also stated that he felt it probably had spread to his left eye because he was becoming property valuation melbourne course increasingly blind in that eye. He was having frequent headaches to the left side of his head, which had become worse over the past month. He stated that he had discussed his desire to resume radiation treatment to the nursing staff but nothing had been done.
The inspection team finished its work Monday and presented its findings to Division of License and Regulation Director Rebecca Cecil in Frankfort. Ms. Cecil continued reviewing the inspectors’ report on Tuesday, then recommended that the Health Care Finance Administration close the home.Wednesday, the Health Care Finance Administration accepted the recommendation and terminated the Medicare agreement with Sunbelt, effective April 24. The state expects to complete paperwork revoking the nursing home’s license within days.
HCFA acted quickly on this , said state Cabinet for Health Services spokeswoman Barbara Hadley Smith.A team from the Department for Social Services and the Division of Licensing and Regulation will be stationed at the nursing home to monitor care and to work with families and residents.Those social workers started assessing the medical and social condition of each resident Wednesday afternoon. The workers also have started contacting surrounding nursing homes to determine the number of beds that are available.