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The owner-operator of a Thomasville nursing home has paid a federal civil penalty of $126,594 as part of ending a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services investigation into the facility.
At Thomasville’s Pine Ridge nursing home, reaction to a January ice storm showed that corporate owners Principle Long Term Care had allowed such poor planning that residents were left in immediate jeopardy, state officials said. The owner of dozens of North Carolina nursing homes, Principle had far too few employees operating the site and was employing an administrator who didn’t use the place’s disaster plan.
History of neglect related to staffing shortages at Pine Ridge has been well documented. The most recent report about ignoring an emergency plan makes things worse.