LifeCare Center of Chattanooga Faces Possible Closure
LifeCare Center of Chattanooga, a nursing home facility located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, faces possible closure after being assessed severe state and federal fines and the cancellation of Medicaid and Medicare contracts. Now, if the facility is to survive financially, it must rely upon private pay residents.
After a complaint and an annual inspection, the state uncovered 21 violations of care in physician services, nursing services, medical records, pharmaceutical services, performance improvement, and administrative areas. The facility was given only two days, instead of the standard 23 days, to correct all deficiencies because the violations were of the "highest level and greatest severity". The report filled 250 pages.
LifeCare has been fined $6,300 per day and that fine is retroactive to January 20, 2009. The total fine to date? $1.28 million...and counting.
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