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The Ellicott Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has received over 70 citations in the last four years for failing to arrange proper accident prevention among patients, lacking sufficient care for pressure ulcers, and for failing to avert any medication errors.

Ellicott Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has received 72 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on October 1, 2021. The facility has also received five fines totaling $40,000 since 2011. The Buffalo nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of 13 inspections by state surveyors. The deficiencies they describe include the following:

1. The nursing home did not provide adequate accident-prevention measures. Section 483.25 of the Federal Code requires nursing homes to ensure residents an accident-free environment. A February 2020 citation found that Ellicott Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing failed to ensure such. The citation specifically describes an instance in which the facility failed to ensure a shower chair lift fit through a shower room doorway. As a result, a resident “sustained a leg laceration, was transferred to the hospital and required 18 sutures.” In a separate incident, a resident was transferred without the use of a mechanical lift or safety devices as planned, and consequently suffered “actual harm” A plan of correction undertaken by the facility included the counseling of nursing staff.

A nursing home in Long Beach, New York has received numerous citations in the last four years.

Park Avenue Extended Care Facility received 14 citations for violations of public health code between 2017 and 2021, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on August 14, 2021. The Long Beach nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of four surveys by state inspectors. The violations they describe include the following:

1. The nursing home did not properly prevent medication errors. Under Section 483.45 of the Federal Code, nursing home residents have the right to be “free of any significant medication errors.” A February 2020 citation found that Park Avenue Extended Care Facility failed to ensure such. The citation states specifically that the nursing home did not ensure one resident’s medication was administered in the parameters ordered by the physician. In an interview, a Licensed Practical Nurse said she had followed the instructions on the medication’s blister pack, and was not aware they reflected old physician’s orders that did not reflect current orders. In an interview, the facility’s Director of Nursing Services said that “the old blister pack should have been returned to the pharmacy by any one of the nurses on duty and replaced with the newly ordered medication blister pack.” A plan of correction undertaken by the facility included the educational counseling of the nurse in question.