I think it needs to be
closed down immediately.
These are human lives and they're stuck.
This person has
been trying to get their loved
one out of advanced healthcare
every day for more than a year.
They say they dread getting that call,
saying their loved one has died,
but there are no open beds in
other nearby facilities that
meet their loved ones needs.
As terrible as. The situation is right now.
We're stuck in this. Location until.
I don't know until when. In
addition to an open homicide case
from December and a new investigation
into the death of a patient who
inspection records show wasn't
given their diabetes medication,
the Ohio Department of Health lists
29 recent health citations linked
to advanced healthcare between the
state's latest health inspection
and the last year of complaints.
Attorney Chad Tuschman has decades
of experience in personal injury
and nursing home cases.
He was alarmed by what Odh found.
This is far and away the most that
I've seen. That's above
any type of average here in
the state and our
nation. Medicare.gov shows the 29
citations from the state during.
Health inspections just
scratched the surface.
Its database rates, nursing homes.
Advanced Healthcare gets one out of
five stars from the government site
when it comes to health inspections
and two out of five when it comes
to staffing the amount of times the
facility has been cited is more than
three times the Ohio and national average.
According to medicare.gov,
I spoke to a former nurse,
the facility,
who says staffing was always an issue.
She says when she walked in for her shift,
she didn't know when she'd be able.
To walk out,
there's a vent trach unit.
There were Ivs, wounds,
all sorts of medically complex things
that there's it's not possible
for one nurse to take care of,
she tells WTO 11 she reached out to the
Ohio Department of Health who didn't
inspection related to her experiences.
They found a 48 hour period on
January 2nd and 3rd of 2021,
where no registered nurses were
staffed to take care of patients.
Keep in mind this is the type of
facility designated to care for
people who can't eat, breathe.
Or move on their own.
This letter was sent to the
facility following her call.
It states that because of the number
of violations found in the facility,
the state will be instituting discretionary
denial of payment for new Medicare
and Medicaid eligible admissions.
The family member we spoke to
says they have not gotten any
notifications from either the state
or advanced health care about these
violations and the nurse says what
Odh found is just part of the story,
and the facility remains
open with patients inside.
There
were a lot of nurses who are like
being worked on to the bone who were
not taking breaks who were working
20 hours at a time.
This nurse worked in Advanced
Healthcare 2 separate times
and was eventually fired,
but she told us in our interview
supported many of the violations we
uncovered in these state documents
showing what life is like for a patient
inside the facility.
They have free range in
the facility to do or not
do whatever they please.
My loved one has missed
meals has been left in.
Positions that are
uncomfortable which cause.
Pressure sores for hours.
And I don't mean two hours,
I mean 24 hours. Tuchman says,
well, this is the worst case he
seen ever since the pandemic shut
people out of nursing facilities.
He's been getting a lot of calls from.
People were worried about the
treatment inside nursing homes in
general with no public oversight.
It's the most daunting
stuff you see because these are
individuals who need help and they
are at their most frail point in life.
And to have something like
this is is beyond reproach.