U.S didn’t help nursing home which didn,t required procedure

The government is cutting off Medicaid and Medicare funds to the Green Meadows Health Care Center in Mount Washington for not meeting federal standards.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in an Aug. 28 public notice that the Bullitt County nursing home, licensed for 122 residents, would lose federal funds effective last Friday.

The notice doesn’t give a reason but follows a state citation issued to Green Meadows last month that found some residents were being attacked and injured by other residents and that the home failed to stop such incidents. It also found the Green Meadows failed to prevent residents from being injured through repeated falls.

Officials with the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which licenses and inspects nursing homes, were at Green Meadows yesterday to assist residents and their families, said cabinet spokeswoman Gwenda Bond.

Bond said she couldn’t comment further and referred questions to the CMS regional office in Atlanta.

Lee Millman, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokeswoman, said that while federal funds were terminated Friday, some payments will continue through Oct. 5 “to facilitate the orderly transfer” of residents from Green Meadows.

She said she had no further information about why the facility is losing federal funds, which cover the majority of the costs of nursing home care in Kentucky.

A woman who answered the phone at Green Meadows yesterday said, “We have no comment at this time, thank you” and hung up.

The cabinet’s directory of licensed facilities on its Web site shows Green Meadows is owned by Mount Washington Health Care LLC.

State records show Green Meadows on Aug. 11 received a “Type A” citation — the most serious, in which a resident’s life or safety is endangered. The citation, issued as a result of a standard survey conducted Aug. 5-8, found that residents were injured by other residents.