A Maryland nursing home has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that it provided substandard care to residents in violation of the state’s False Health Claims Act.
As part of the agreement, state Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced this week, Patapsco Healthcare will fund a $100,000 quality improvement plan and agree to four years of monitoring and performance evaluations by a third-party consultant.
A multi-agency state strike force performed a surprise inspection of the nursing home, interviewed residents and reviewed survey and medical records as part of its investigation. Brown said they uncovered “serious wound care inadequacies” leading to hospitalizations; failure to provide residents with adequate nutrition and hydration; regulatory violations compromising patient care; numerous preventable falls; and failure to prevent residents from overdosing on opiate medications.
“When nursing facilities fail to prevent worsening wounds, repeated preventable falls, or opioid overdoses, these aren’t isolated mistakes – they’re symptoms of systemic failures that hurt Maryland’s most vulnerable,” Brown said in a statement Tuesday.
The strike force approach previously resulted in a $1.28 million settlement with another Mayland nursing home. Welcomed by consumers, the relatively new strike force has largely been viewed by providers as an additional survey burden that distracts from patient care.
An administrator for Patapsco Healthcare did not respond to a...
A Maryland nursing home has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that it provided substandard care to residents in violation of the state’s False Health Claims Act. As part of the agreeme...