South Jersey Extended Care Concerns

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Concerns About South Jersey Extended Care

According to the most recent Medicare inspection, conducted on 6/8/2020, South Jersey Extended Care has been in violation of several laws and regulations around residents’ rights. Below are more details about several such alleged incidents.

Failed to Protect Residents from Abuse

Based on Medicare inspectors’ observations, interviews with residents and staff, and medical records review, they found that facility staff failed to ensure a resident was protected from physical abuse, and failed to follow policies to report the incident and prevent future abuse.

Per these observations, a resident was roughly handled by a staff member when being assisted into a wheelchair. A second staff member then forcefully pulled back the wheelchair, causing the resident to fall to the floor and sustain an abdominal injury. Both staff members then roughly handled the resident while placing them back into the chair and returning them to their room.

This is only a single incident of this nature that inspectors recorded. Other residents also reported similar incidents.

Failed to Report Allegations of Abuse

In addition to allegations of abuse, the 6/8/2020 Medicare inspection also found these incidents were not being appropriately reported. Though an incident in which a resident was shoved out of their wheelchair and sustained an abdominal injury was recorded, there was no documentation to indicate the Nursing Supervisor or Administration was notified. The facility’s regional coordinator also stated she was unaware of any abuse, and stated that reports of such should have started an investigation into the matter. There was no indication of an investigation.

South Jersey Extended Care is a 1-Star Nursing Home

Medicare rated South Jersey Extended Care 1 star out of five, considering staffing, quality of care, and the facility itself, for all but two quarters since 2013.

The State of New Jersey rated South Jersey Extended Care among the fifteen worst long term care facilities in the state, noting that 14 of the 15 are for-profit long term care facilities.