Eden Park Nursing Home Cited Again For Deficiencies
Posted on Thursday, 28 of February , 2008 at 11:41 am
NEW YORK—For the second time this year, the Eden Park Health Care Center facility in Catskill has been cited by New York State Department of Health for deficiencies that have caused isolated resident harm.
The state DOH fined 21 nursing homes across the state during the fourth quarter of 2007 and took other action against 19 other facilities.
Civil money penalties, a federal sanction against nursing homes that fail to comply with quality care requirements, were levied against 14 other nursing homes statewide, the fines ranging from $1,400 to $149,500.
During the fourth quarter of 2006, three other facilities owned by the Eden Park Health Care Center Inc. in Albany, Poughkeepsie and Utica were fined for giving poor care.
During the third quarter of 2007, the Eden Park facility in Cobleskill was cited for giving substandard care, putting their residents in jeopardy or causing resident harm. These homes are being required by the state to conduct specific activities to improve care such as hiring consultants, giving in-service training to their staff and/or have a state monitor their care.
The Cobleskill facility has since closed. Eden Park currently operates nursing homes in Glens Falls, Poughkeepsie, Utica and Catskill in New York State and in Brattleboro and Rutland, Vt., in addition to two in Connecticut.
The Long Term Care Community Coalition reports quarterly on all enforcement actions, including fines, taken against nursing homes by the New York State Department of Health and the federal government every three months in its newsletters and on its websites.
Civil penalties were levied against 14 nursing homes. The nursing homes, their location, date of survey and amount of fine follows:
Betsey Ross Rehabilitation Center, Rome, 5/1/07, $2,925
Blossom South Nursing & Rehab Center, formerly known as Arbor Hill Care Center, Rochester, 10/25/05, $149,500 (fine imposed in accordance with settlement agreement between CMS and the facility)
Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, Brooklyn, 7/11/07, $26,715;
Daughters of Jacob Nursing Home, Bronx, 3/6/07, $137,970 (reduced due to financial hardship)
Ellis Residential & Rehab Center, Schenectady, 5/7/07, $5,850
Evergreen Valley Nursing Home, Plattsburg, 6/6/07, $4,550
Fairchild Manor Nursing Home, Lewiston, 6/13/06, $13,200 (fine imposed in accordance with settlement agreement between CMS and the facility)
Harbour Health Multicare Center for Living, Buffalo, 5/31/07, $4,875
Hawthorn Health Multicare Center for Living, Buffalo, 4/4/07, $4,550
Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, New York, 7/25/07, $2,600
Mt. Loretto Nursing Home, Amsterdam, 8/10/07, $1,400
Van Duyn Home and Hospital, Syracuse, 3/30/07, $3,375 (reduced due to financial hardship)
Waterview Nursing Care Center, Queens, 10/3/07, $3,575
Woodcrest Rehab & Residential Health Care Center, Queens, 6/6/07, $2,925
The state fines against 21 nursing homes for the period of Sept. 16-Dec. 15, 2007, are as follows: (under state law, nursing homes can be fined up to $2,000 per deficiency)
Bellhaven Nursing Center, Inc. Brookhaven 3/31/06 $1,000
Betsy Ross Rehabilitation Center Inc. Rome 5/1/07 $13,000
Bialystoker Center for Nursing & Rehab Manhattan 8/15/02 $1,000
Bishop Charles Waldo Maclean Episcopal Nursing Home Queens 4/6/07 $7,000
Bridge View Nursing Home Whitestone 6/23/06 $1,000
Bridge View Nursing Home Whitestone 12/7/06 $1,000
Bridge View Nursing Home Whitestone 2/7/07 $1,000
Bronx Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare Bronx 4/27/07 $2,000
Bronx-Lebanon Special Care Center Bronx 5/10/07 $2,000
East Rockaway Care Facility Lynbrook 4/10/07 $1,000
Ellis Residential & Rehabilitation Center Schenectady 5/7/07 $4,000
Flushing Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Queens 8/9/01 $2,000
Katherine Luther Home Clinton 5/21/07 $2,000
Livingston Hills Nursing & Rehabilitation Center LLC Livingston 6/7/07 $5,000
Marcus Garvey Nursing Home Company Inc Brooklyn 5/18/06 $4,000
Mayfair Care Center Hempstead 2/17/05 $1,000
Mayfair Care Center Hempstead 5/5/06 $2,000
Meadowbrook Healthcare Plattsburgh 10/31/02 $5,000
Oceanside Care Center, Inc. Oceanside 5/3/07 $1,000
Parkview Care and Rehabilitation Center Inc. Massapequa 2/28/01 $2,000
The Pines Healthcare & Rehabilitation Olean 3/9/07 $2,000
Rockville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC Rockville Center 8/28/06 $6,500
Rockville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC Rockville Center 3/29/07 $1,000
St. Luke Health Services Oswego 3/15/07 $2,000
Whittier Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center Ghent 6/30/06 $2,000
The state took other action against 19 nursing homes. In addition to the actions listed below, the following nursing homes are also subject to a fine. If the nursing home was found, at the time of the survey, to have given substandard quality of care (SQC) and/or to have put residents in immediate jeopardy (IJ), the most serious level of deficiencies, or to have repeated deficiencies that have caused isolated resident harm (G) it is noted in the third column. Double G means the home has received Gs in two consecutive surveys. IJ Removed means the facility was identified to have immediate jeopardy during the survey but removed the situation that caused Immediate Jeopardy prior to the end of the survey.
Denial of Payments for New Admissions (DoPNA): Facility will not be paid for any new Medicaid or Medicare residents until correction; Directed Plan Of Correction (DPOC): A plan that is developed by the State or the Federal regional office to require a facility to take action within specified timeframes. In New York State the facility is directed to analyze the reasons for the deficiencies and identify steps to correct the problems and ways to measure whether its efforts are successful; In-Service Training: State directs in-service training for staff; the facility needs to go outside for help; State Monitoring: state sends in a monitor to oversee correction; Termination means the facility can no longer receive reimbursement for Medicaid and Medicare residents.
Absolut Ctr for Nursing & Rehab Endicott IJ/SQC 12/5/07 X DOPNA
Central Island Healthcare Plainview GG 11/20/07 DPOC, DOPNA
Cuba Memorial Hospital Inc, SNF Cuba IJ/SQC 11/15/07 X State Monitor, DPOC, DOPNA
Eden Park HCC Inc. Catskill GG 10/18/07 DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
Evergreen Valley Nursing Home Plattsburgh GG 10/25/07 DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
Fulton County Residential HCF Gloversville GG 10/5/07 DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
Grace Manor Health Care Facility Buffalo GG 10/15/07 X DOPNA
Guilderland Center Nursing Home, Guilderland Center, IJ/SQC 10/5/07 X State Monitor, DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
Little Neck Nursing Home Little Neck GG 10/15/07 X DOPNA
Mt. Loretto Nursing Home Inc. Amsterdam IJ/SQC 10/19/07 X State Monitor, DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
Northwoods Rehab Cortland Cortland GG 11/29/07 DPOC, Inservice,
NYS Vets Home at Montrose Montrose SQC 11/20/07 X DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
NYS Vets Home at St Albans Queens IJ/SQC 9/25/07 X State Monitor, DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
The Pines Healthcare & Rehab Machias IJ/SQC 12/7/07 X State Monitor, DPOC, DOPNA
Riverview Manor HCC Owego GG 11/16/07 X DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
Teresian House Nursing Home Co., Albany IJ/SQC 9/26/07 X State Monitor, DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
The Crossings Nursing and Rehab Center Minoa IJ/SQC 10/25/07 X State Monitor, DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
Van Allen Nursing Home Little Falls IJ/SQC 10/31/07 X State Monitor, DOPNA
Waterview Nursing Home Queens IJ/SQC 10/3/07 X DPOC, Inservice, DOPNA
This report of nursing home enforcements and others can be found at http://www.ltccc.org/enforcements/archives.shtml
The Long Term Care Community Coalition believes that consumers should be aware of problems at the nursing home they or their loved ones live in or homes they are thinking of moving to. This information can be used to assess safety and to ask questions of staff and administration: why have these problems occurred and what is being done to correct them. LTCCC is a coalition of over two dozen organizations that works to protect the rights and welfare of long term care consumers in all settings, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities and managed long term care, by strengthening regulation, surveillance and enforcement. For more information on this and other long term care issues, see www.ltccc.org
Eden Park in Glens Falls is one of four nursing home facilities owned in New York State by Eden Park Health Services in Albany with Scott Hoffman as the chief executive officer. Others are in Catskill, Poughkeepsie and Utica. The corporation has closed facilities in Catskill, Albany and Hudson. http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/102906EdenParkCorrections.html
Eden Park has a history of poor care. In April 2006, it was announced that the state Department of Health was investigating the 125-bed Eden Park Health Care Center in Cobleskill, looking into patient care issues. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services levied a civil penalty of $43,622 against the facility.
During the federal investigation of the facility in 2007, the state had found that the Cobleskill facility was in “immediate jeopardy”.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there were 11 deficiencies found at Eden Park’s Cobleskill home, more than twice the average of five for nursing homes statewide. A rating of immediate jeopardy indicates that a facility has deficiencies that have caused or are likely to cause serious harm, injury, impairment or death if not immediately rectified.
The Eden Park facilities in Utica and Poughkeepsie and the former Cobleskill facility are on the National Nursing Home Watch List for causing immediate harm to a patient or subjecting patients to immediate jeopardy. http://www.memberofthefamily.net/ny.htm
So far, Glens Falls has escaped this list but it seems that it may be only a matter of time. http://www.memberofthefamily.net/usmap.htm
Last January, Eden Park had agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment at the Cobleskill home. The lawsuit which had been filed in U.S. District Court in September 2005 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged that female employees were subjected to “offensive propositioning and degrading comments regarding oral sex, masturbation and their physical appearance”, according to court files which indicated the alleged harassment dated back to 2000.Although agreeing to pay $250,000, Eden Park denied that any harassment had occurred, issuing a statement that “Eden Park has been committed to a harassment-free workplace and has policies and procedures for employees to handle these matters”.
By the end of April, the state Department of Health had announced that Eden Park’s facility in Cobleskill, the only skilled nursing home in Schoharie County, was closing at the end of July. Hoffman said they had been unsuccessful at trying to sell the Cobleskill facility but had allegedly sold the other facilities owned by the corporation. Hoffman admitted to having a staffing problem and by early April, the Cobleskill home which had a capacity of 125 residents had downsized to 90 beds.
Although a certificate of need has been issued by the state DOH, indicating that entities called Glens Falls Crossings LLC, Poughkeepsie Crossings LLC, Utica Crossings LLC and Catskill Crossings LLC are operated Eden Park Health Care Centers in those cities, the Department of State says that no such entities are registered to do business in New York State. http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2008/02/23/eden_park_not_registered/ http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2008/02/09/no_eden_park_paradise/
When the Department of Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspected the Eden Park Health Care Center in Glens Falls in December, 2005, it gave the facility an overall rating of needing corrections but yet it ruled that it was in compliance with Life Safety Code requirements. December 2005 Report
Deficiencies in the quality of care, residents’ rights and physical environment were found and reportedly corrected. However, when the most recent federal inspection of the Glens Falls facility was released last year, it was found that the facility was not equipped and maintained to provide a safe environment for residents, personnel and the public.
But yet the nursing home is home to nearly 120 residents. The inspection reports are disturbing.
Inspectors determined that the Glens Falls home failed to hire only people who have no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents, failed to report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents; failed to give professional services that follow each resident’s written are plan and failed to make sure that a working call system is available in each resident’s room or bathroom and bathing area.
http://nursinghomes.nyhealth.gov/browse_view.php?pfi=1010
http://www.medicare.gov/ 2-28-08
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