Memphis, Tennessee Nursing Home Abuse
Another case of nursing home abuse (or lack of supervision) hit the news yesterday here in Memphis. WMC-TV Channel 5 reported last night (their video and report can be found here) that eighty-seven year-old Mary Alice Oates was allowed to wonder the streets of midtown Memphis during the early morning/late night hours of Sunday night.
It appears that Mrs. Oates somehow was able to walk out the front doors of the Overton Park Health Care Center without anyone even noticing. What's worse is that after walking outside Mrs. Oates suffered serious injuries and had to be taken to local hospital. This trip to the hospital was apparently Mrs. Oates third trip in just a few months, all because of injuries that occurred while in the nursing homes supposed care.
It seems that this type of negligence is not something new to Overton Park Health Care Center. This facility that is located at 131 N. Tucker Street here in Memphis has been listed in Medicare's list of Worst Nursing Homes, along with 53 other nursing homes from across the country. They first appeared on this list back on November 29, 2007. It seems that very little has been done to improve the conditions there since they first appeared on this notorious list.
The Memphis Business Journal has a December 10, 2007 article that discusses the deficiencies that were found at this facility. Just click HERE to read the full article. But to give you an idea of what it takes to make this terrible list, you should know that only 52 nursing homes are on the list out of a possible 16,000!
We hope that Mrs. Oates is healing quickly and will recover fully. My advice to her family is to remove Mrs. Oates from the facility as soon as possible and then consult a qualified Memphis nursing home abuse and injury lawyer immediately. There are a lot of good personal injury and accident lawyers in Memphis that will help make sure that Mrs. Oates is taken care of properly!
Want to see the complete list of all 54 of the worst nursing homes in america? Here they are broken down by state.
- Alabama
Eastview HealthCare Center, in Birmingham
Woodley Manor Health & Rehabilitation, Montgomery - Arkansas
Benson’s Nursing Home Inc., Nashville - California
Yuba City Care Center, Yuba City - Colorado
Eagle Ridge at Grand Valley, Grand Junction
Kindred Healthcare & Rehab Center of Northglenn, Northglenn - Connecticut
Wethersfield Health Care Center, Wethersfield - Florida
Apollo Health & Rehab Center, St. Petersburg
Key West Convalescent Center, in Key West
Palms Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Lauderdale Lakes - Georgia
Laurel Baye Healthcare of Lake Lanier, Buford
The Place at Augusta, Augusta
Shoreham at Marietta, Marietta - Hawaii
Leahi Hospital, Honolulu - Iowa
Blair House, Burlington - Idaho
Gooding Rehab & Living Center, Gooding - Illinois
Berkshire Nursing & Rehab Center, Forest Park - Indiana
Hillcrest Centre for Health and Rehabilitation, Jeffersonville
Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation Center, Valparaiso - Kansas
Atchison Senior Village, Atchison
Ottawa Retirement Village, Ottawa - Louisiana
Lake Providence Subacute Rehab, Lake Providence
Plaquemine Caring LLC, Plaquemine - Massachusetts
Cedar Hill Health Care Center, Randolph
Milton Health Care, Milton - Minnesota
Golden Valley Rehabilitation and Care Center, Golden Valley
Mcintosh Manor, Mcintosh. - Missouri
Senior Estates, Kansas City
St Elizabeth Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Florissant
West Village Manor, Columbia - Mississippi
Hinds County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Jackson - Montana
Evergreen Missoula Health & Rehab, Missoula - North Carolina
Sunbridge Care & Rehab/Triad, in High Point - New Jersey
Victoria Health Care Center, Matawan - New Mexico
Fort Bayard Medical Center, Fort Bayard - Nevada
Evergreen Mountainview Health, Carson City - New York
Vivian Teal Howard Rhcf, Syracuse - Oklahoma
Northwest Nursing Center, Oklahoma City
Pawhuska Nursing Home, Pawhuska - Pennsylvania
Ashton Hall Nursing and Rehab, Philadelphia
Brighten at Broomall, Broomall - South Carolina
Magnolia Manor — Moncks Corner, Moncks Corner
Ridgeview Manor Nursing Facility, in Hopkins - South Dakota
Aberdeen Healthcare Center, in Aberdeen
Bennett County Hospital and Nursing Home, Martin - Tennessee
Overton Park Health Care Center, Memphis - Texas
Taylor Care Center, Taylor - Virginia
Ruxton Health of Woodbridge, Woodbridge - Washington
Evergreen Centralia Health & R, Centralia
Franklin Hills Health & Rehab, Spokane
Frontier Rehab & Extended Care, Longview - Wisconsin
Luther Home, Marinette
Willows Nursing and Rehabilitation, Sun Prairie - Washington, D.C.
Carolyn Boone Lewis Health Care Center
