Continuing Healthcare of Cuyahoga Falls
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also known as CMS, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, has a Center for Clinical Status and Quality/Quality Safety and Oversight Group. This group monitors nursing homes. They have developed a Special Focus Facility Program. They identify nursing homes that have a history of serious quality issues and are included in a special program to stimulate improvement in their quality of care.
Among the facilities listed that qualify to be selected as Special Focus Facilities is Continuing Healthcare of Cuyahoga Falls, located at 300 East Bath Road in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44223.
This nursing home has been cited for abuse and is not rated due to a history of serious quality issues. Most nursing homes are rated using the CMS 5-star rating, where 1 is the worst and 5 is the best. However, this nursing home is not rated because of its serious quality issues. This nursing home is subject to more frequent inspections, escalating penalties, and potential termination from participation in the Medicare and Medicaid program, meaning that they will no longer be able to accept funds from Medicare and Medicaid as part of the special facility focus program.
Every nursing home resident deserves to retain their basic human dignity and to be treated at all times with respect. Abuse and neglect are never acceptable in a nursing home.
If someone you love is a resident of Continuing Healthcare of Cuyahoga Falls, you should think very seriously about moving them to another nursing home.
Continuing Healthcare of Cuyahoga Falls is a for-profit nursing home.
The nursing home has received federal fines on the following dates:
- January 11, 2022
- February 14, 2022
- November 8, 2022
- March 1, 2023
11.3% of the short-term rehabilitation residents at Continuing Healthcare of Cuyahoga Falls developed a serious infection requiring hospitalization while they were a resident of the subject nursing home. The average in Ohio was 7.5 percent. The average nationally is 7.7 percent.
This nursing home has paid eight fines in the last 3 years, totaling $311,303.00.
A woman with dementia was a resident of this nursing home. She was sexually assaulted by a nurse's aide at Continuing Healthcare of Cuyahoga Falls. Her daughter sued the owners and operators of the facility as a result of this incident. The employee pled guilty in November of 2018 to two felony counts of sexual battery and a felony count of gross sexual imposition and is currently serving a 5-year sentence in the Lorain Correctional Institute.
Anyone whose loved one is a resident of Continuing Healthcare of Cuyahoga Falls should think very seriously about moving their loved one to a better facility.
If someone you love has been neglected or abused in a nursing home, please call us at The Dickson Firm at 1-800-OHIO LAW, as we would be happy to talk with you and help you in any way that we can.