Daily News | Feds sued Cheltenham Nursing & Rehab for years of ‘grossly substandard’ care
Federal nursing home regulators fined Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia $824,213 for failures connected to the June 2018 suicide of an elderly patient at the East Olney facility. It was the second-largest fine against a U.S. nursing home in 2018.
“This is a really bad place,” said Toby Edelman, senior policy attorney in the Washington office of the nonprofit Center for Medicare Advocacy. “I couldn’t read it. I started getting so agitated,” Edelman said of the 144-page civil complaint.
J. Michael Haemmerle, who is listed as Cheltenham’s administrator on its latest Medicaid cost report to Pennsylvania and as an AHF board member on that organization’s latest 990 tax return, said AHF is proud of the care provided at its facilities. Advocates have been urging federal and state governments to make it easier to track the amounts of money nursing homes are paying to affiliates to get a better picture of the industry’s financial condition. They saw the AHF complaint as a sign that that approach is taking hold.
More recent comparable data on cash reserves were not available, but Cheltenham’s federal cost report for the year ended June 30, 2019, shows that the facility had enough cash on hand to keep funding the business for 174 days without new revenue.
, for taking Medicare and Medicaid money but not providing adequate nutrition and wound care to three bed-bound residents.As examples of the problems at the AHF facilities, the lawsuit includes a list of 104 alleged false claims for 13 patients, nine of them from Cheltenham. Cheltenham accounted for $403,096, or 85%, of the $473,732 total in alleged false claims. Over the period covered by the lawsuit, the AHF facilities made 10,000 claims on Medicaid and Medicare, the complaint said.
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