ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A shortage of nursing home beds continues for our aging population across New York state. Just last week, a nursing home in Rochester closed. More than 160 residents moved out of Waterview Heights Nursing Home after reports of multiple failed inspections and a lack of care.
“Really inappropriate care, or lack of care, for individuals, not receiving some medications,” LifeSpan’s president and CE Ann Marie Cook explained. “We had some individuals tell us that they had to wear multiple Depends because no one was available to help them go to the bathroom. This facility had years to correct those deficiencies and weren’t able to do it. So CMS acted. And then the New York State Department of Health oversaw the closure. At this point Waterview Heights is closed in. So all of the residents have been transitioned to other placements or have gone home. And at this point, the facility is closed and there’s no one working there.”
Lifespan assisted the former residents in finding new placements. Cook says many of them were on Medicaid and were in complex physical and mental health situations…