Kentucky Nursing Home Placed on Government Special Focus Facility List
As of July 22, 2010, Bluegrass Care and Rehabilitation, a Lexington, Kentucky nursing home, has been placed on the federal government's Special Focus Facility list. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a Special Focus facility is a nursing home facility that has demonstrated a consistently poor quality of care based on inspection findings over the past three years. These facilities are subject to inspection twice as often as other nursing home facilities. to see the July 22, 2010 Special Focus Facility Initiative, go here.
Investigators found 22 deficiencies at the facility so far in 2010, which is more than three times the average number of deficiencies found in most Kentucky nursing home facilities. Additionally, the facility was slapped with a Type A citation, the worst citation that can be assessed, in both 2009 and 2010. The 2009 Type A citation was assessed after facility staff members reportedly attached inappropriate lyrics to photographs of residents and sent them via text message to other facility employees. The 2010 Type A citation was assessed after a resident eloped from the facility.
