Missouri April 2009 Nursing Home Report Card: Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis
Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis is a 104 bed nursing home facility located in St. Louis, Missouri. In the past three years, Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis' inspection deficiency record has surpassed the average number of health deficiencies in Missouri twice. Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis received eleven deficiencies in 2008, eight deficiencies in 2007, and fifteen deficiencies in 2006. The average number of nursing home deficiencies in Missouri is nine. Currently, Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis is rated as a one-star nursing home according to the new system instituted by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, which indicates a well below-average facility.
All nursing home residents deserve to be safe from abuse and neglect. Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis failed to ensure its residents' safety when it failed to hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting, or mistreating residents and to report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect, or mistreatment of residents. This facility also failed to write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect, and abuse of residents and theft of residents' property.
All nursing home residents deserve professional services that meet a professional standard of quality. This facility failed its residents in this respect multiple times in the past three years, actually causing harm to residents in at least two of those instances. Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis caused actual harm to at least one resident when it failed to provide residents the proper treatment to prevent bed sores or to heal existing bed sores. This facility also failed to ensure that residents entering the facility without a catheter is not given one unless necessary and failed to ensure that residents unable to care for themselves are provided with assistance with activities of daily living.
All nursing home residents have the right to be treated fairly and with respect. Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis purportedly failed its residents multiple times when it failed to immediately tell a resident's physician or personal representative of a change in condition. This facility also failed to provide proof that all residents' personal money deposited with the facility was secure.
It is important in nursing homes that the residents are provided with properly balanced meals so ensure good health. Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis failed its residents failed to store, cook, and distribute food in a safe, clean way.
Nursing home pharmaceutical errors can be deadly. This facility failed its residents when it did not keep its medication error rate below 5% and when it did not ensure that residents who take medications were not given too many doses or for too long or stop the medication use if it caused unwanted effects.
A safe, clean, homelike environment is important for nursing home residents to thrive. Rosewood Care Center of St. Louis failed to ensure that the nursing home area is free of dangers that could cause accidents and failed to keep a safe, clean, and homelike environment. The facility did not have a program in place to prevent infection from spreading and did not ensure that staff washed their hands when necessary.
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