DOJ Investigates ProMedica’s Greenville East

WSPA reported that a local nursing home in Greenville, S.C. has offered care so horrendous that the United States Department of Justice has stepped in to sue them, along with three other facilities. Greenville East, along with three other ProMedica-owned facilities, are being sued for their consistent failures maintain residents’ hygiene, conduct proper wound care, and provide assistance with feeding. All of which are basic expectations for anyone hoping to receive decent care in a long-term care facility. Further, the facilities often failed to create and/or follow the care plans that must be made and followed for each and every resident that enters the facility.

On top of this nightmare, the DOJ stated that these facilities then lied about the services that were provided to the vulnerable adults under their care to deceive the adults and their family members. The other nursing homes can be found in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia.

Considering that this neglect had been going on for five years before the DOJ involved itself, it is a wonder how many other facilities are getting away with such significant abuse and neglect and lying about it to the faces of members’ families. It is shameful, yet unsurprising, that those who are trusted the most to look after our family members are those caught causing serious harm to our family.

As Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said, “Grossly substandard care places nursing home residents at serious risk of harm and this suit sends a clear message that we will pursue health care providers who fail to meet their legal obligations to provide required care and who betray the trust of the residents they are meant to serve.”

Hopefully, justice will prevail, and the U.S. DOJ will teach these four facilities a memorable lesson on how to treat vulnerable individuals who have trusted them for care.