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Fort Worth Nursing Home Fined For Shocking Neglect Of Residents
Posted on Jan 26, 2010
A nursing home company based out of Fort Worth, Texas, is facing large criminal and civil fines after five different adult care facilities were found to be rampantly negligent – and defrauding the government’s Medicare system.
The U.S. attorney’s office said that Cathedral Rock and founder 60-year-old C. Kent Harrington will pay $1.6 million in penalties to the government, both for cheating the Medicare system and for severely neglecting many of their nursing home residents over a series of years.
Michael S. Evans, Cathedral’s executive vice president, denied some of the more horrific allegations of neglect and abuse, although Cathedral Rock did admit Medicare fraud.
Since 2001, Cathedral Rock admitted that its nursing homes were often dangerously understaffed and that care for open wounds such as bed sores or pressure sores was sometimes not provided – some claim nursing home residents were infested with maggots. The Nursing home company also admitted that they falsified medical records, that they sometimes did not gives residents their medication, and that they filed false reports with Medicare. Many of these shocking nursing home abuses were revealed by a former nursing home employee.
Despite all of this, the nursing homes will not be closing and Cathedral Rock will not be excluded from Medicare funds in the future. Instead, the nursing home company has been given a second chance and a five-year requirement for good behavior. If all goes well, the felony charges against Harrington for his fraud and gross negligence will be dropped.
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