Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center

Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center is a for-profit nursing home in Baltimore, Maryland. It offers rehabilitation services to residents needing short-term stays and permanent residents who need long-term care. Despite the health services they provide, this facility has been subjected to numerous violations and complaints over the years. 

If you have a loved one who has been injured, neglected, or abused in this nursing home, you must report the incident(s) to the appropriate institutions. Afterward, reach out to our Maryland nursing home abuse lawyers so we can help you take the necessary steps to seek justice and compensation. 

Quick Overview

• Facility Name: Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center
• Address: 1217 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD, 21223
• CMS Overall Rating: 2 out of 5 
• CMS Health Inspection Rating: 1 out of 5 stars 
• CMS Staffing Rating: 2 out of 5 stars 
• CMS Quality Measures Rating: 5 out of 5 stars 
• Federal Fines in the Last 3 Years: 3 fines totaling $220,418
• Payment Denials by Medicare in the Last 3 Years: 0
• Consumer Alert (if applicable): Not applicable
• Total Bed Capacity: 156
• Ownership Type (For-Profit/Non-Profit): For-profit – Corporation [1]

Facility Overview

Fayette Health and Rehab is a skilled nursing facility that offers the elderly a place to live and get the care they need, whether on a short-term or long-term basis. The facility’s staff assists with various rehabilitation programs and provides assistance with activities of daily living to residents who need additional help. 

Despite the facility’s efforts to meet all its residents’ needs, this nursing home has struggled to provide the level of care it should. It has a history of complaints, citations, and violations. Some are within the last three years, but many are from before that. 

Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center Ratings and Performance

To ensure that nursing homes and assisted living facilities nationwide treat their residents as they should be, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) thoroughly rates all these facilities with a 5-star system. They evaluate the facility’s overall performance, quality measures, staffing, and health inspections. 

This particular nursing home in Baltimore has a 2 out of 5-star rating, below average compared to other facilities. Despite its low rating, it doesn’t have any consumer alerts for elder abuse that people need to be aware of. That doesn’t mean there aren’t issues within the nursing home. 

Fayette Health and Rehab has the highest score, 5 out of 5 stars, for quality measures, the lowest score of 1 out of 5 stars for health inspections, and 2 out of 5 stars for their staffing measures. This nursing home has had three fines within the last three years, totaling over $220,000. 

Inspections of the nursing home have revealed several incidents of neglect or abuse, deficiencies in the quality of life and care, deficiencies in care planning, and resident rights deficiencies. It’s important to know that these deficiencies were all documented between 2023 and now. 

Services Provided

Those admitted to Fayette Health and Rehab can be there for various services. They provide short-term rehabilitation services such as physical and occupational therapy. They also have long-term programs for memory care, an amputee program, and more. 

For those with aging-related memory issues, they offer memory care for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients and physical therapy for seniors. Residents will have individual care plans and access to medical professionals like physicians, nurses, therapists, and more to assist them with their medications and improve their health status. 

While many residents don’t experience issues at this nursing home, there have been several reports, some within the last three years, of serious deficiencies. Some of these violations include failing to inform a resident and their family of a change in their care plan, allegations of physical abuse, not reporting abuse allegations promptly, and failing to ensure residents were properly and regularly bathed. 

Violations and Citations

Understanding the violations, citations, and complaints this nursing home has faced is essential for better understanding the facility. 

Specific Violations

Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center has had numerous complaints and violations since it’s been open, but these are some specific violations that have happened within the last year: 

Resident Rights Violations: The residents here have experienced several rights violations in the last several years. Some of the violations include not having adequate care plans in place, failing to acknowledge a resident’s advanced directive form, not having an activities program to stimulate and support the residents, not safeguarding resident health information from the public, and not keeping accurate documentation. 

Inadequate Assistance with Activities of Daily Living: When residents cannot bath independently, they’re assisted by nursing home staff. While not every resident can and is bathed every day, there is a requirement that they have to be bathed regularly to ensure proper hygiene and decrease the risk of getting sick. Several residents stated that they had not been being washed twice a week like they were supposed to, and one resident claimed they had only been bathed twice in the several months they’d been at the nursing home. 

Elder Neglect and Improper Reporting: The nursing home has been accused of elder abuse and failed to report the suspected abuse within the two-hour requirement of the discovery of alleged abuse. One resident fell and broke her hip, requiring surgery, but when she told the staff at the nursing home, they didn’t report the reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect for three days. 

Failure to Follow or Inform of Updated Care Plans: Many residents and their family members found out later than they should have that there were changes to the medical care plan. Medical professionals must share any changes in the care plan with the resident and/or their power of attorney so everyone is on the same page. Several residents in Fayette Health and Rehab were subjected to this.  

Not Providing a Safe, Clean, or Homelike Environment: Residents here have reported many of their belongings would go missing when attempting to do their laundry at the facility. They failed to ensure that all their mattresses were secured to the bed frames, causing a safety risk. 

Inadequate Supervision of Staff: Reports stated that during a mandatory in-service training for nurses’ aids, there wasn’t a supervisor present to ensure that all the nurses’ aids completed the required training. 

Impact on Residents

The various violations, citations, and complaints against Fayette Health and Rehab have severely impacted the residents. Whether something happened directly to a resident or indirectly, the impacts of the incidents can be felt. When the high standards of care required of nursing homes aren’t met, it can cause significant physical and emotional distress. 

Health and Safety

Residents within a nursing home are already not in perfect health, so when the facility fails to uphold proper health and safety standards, it can make their conditions worse. Everything from failing to help bathe residents regularly to not properly supervising them to prevent falls can cause serious bodily injury or harm to the resident. 

Beyond those two incidents affecting residents, failing to follow their care plans or changing them without updating the resident or family can worsen their health status due to improper reporting and communication between everyone on their medical team. 

Emotional and Psychological Impact

People often forget that just because there’s a physical injury doesn’t mean there can’t be emotional or psychological impacts, too. Even residents who don’t suffer from Dementia or memory issues can struggle to be in a nursing home due to the healthcare environment, being away from loved ones, or simply not feeling at home in the facility. 

Any slight hiccup at the facility can cause residents emotional or psychological distress. Residents who are abused will likely have mental health issues like depression and anxiety; those not bathed regularly can also become depressed and irritable. 

With mental health issues, the health status of the patient is likely to decrease because they can become uninterested or angry with what they have to do to leave the rehabilitation center or generally improve their health. 

Case Studies

Not every complaint resulted in a lawsuit against Fayette Health and Rehab. That being said, there have been a few court cases that showcase the physical, emotional, and psychological effects negligence and abuse had on the resident and their family members: 

• Donna Hill v. Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center 
• Tameko Dower v. Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center 

Legal Rights and Actions

Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center residents have the right to quality medical care and a safe living environment. These rights help protect them from neglect and abuse by nursing home staff members and should ensure that they receive the correct medical treatment based on their care plan promptly. 

When nursing homes and other establishments like Fayette Health and Rehab fail to uphold resident rights, residents and their family members can take legal action. This includes filing lawsuits for negligence or elder abuse. Filing a lawsuit or claim is the best way to hold those responsible accountable for their actions and seek justice and compensation. 

Elder neglect and abuse cases against nursing homes can be complicated due to the several liable parties. That’s why speaking with a nursing home abuse lawyer like those at the Nursing Home Law Center should be high on your list of things to do in this situation. 

We have the knowledge and experience to tackle your elder abuse or neglect lawsuit against a nursing home in your area. We’ll fight tirelessly while protecting your or your loved one’s rights and holding everyone accountable. 

If you believe Fayette Health and Rehabilitation Center has injured or harmed your loved one, contact us today to discuss your legal options. 

[1] Medicare