The Justice Department late Wednesday announced it has sued three connected nursing homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania, citing their “grossly substandard skilled nursing services.”
The False Claims Act complaint against the nonprofit American Health Foundation (AHF), its affiliate AHF Management Corporation, and the nursing homes themselves alleges the facilities failed to meet required standards of care for infection control protocols and did not maintain adequate staffing levels between 2016 and 2018.
The nursing homes include Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia; the Sanctuary at Wilmington Place in Dayton, OH; and Samaritan Care Center and Villa in Median, OH.
AHF is headquartered in Dublin, OH, and owns and controls four skilled nursing facilities in Ohio, as well as facilities in Pennsylvania and Iowa. The nursing homes included in the allegations have nearly 400 beds combined.
A phone message left by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News after business hours Wednesday night at American Health Foundation and AHF Management Corp. for president Suzanne Lehman was not immediately returned.
Justice officials in a statement alleged that Cheltenham “housed its residents in a dirty, pest-infested building; gave its residents unnecessary medications, including antibiotic, antipsychotic, anti-anxiety and hypnotic drugs; failed to safeguard residents’ personal possessions; subjected residents to verbal abuse; neglected to provide residents with activities or...
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