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Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 255-bed facility located at 600 W Cheltenham Avenue, is one of several nursing homes that have agreed to pay a combined $3.61 million to resolve federal allegations of billing Medicare and Medicaid for inadequate care, according to a recent announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Federal authorities allege that between 2016 and 2018, Cheltenham provided what they described as "grossly substandard skilled nursing services." According to the Justice Department, the facility failed to maintain clean and safe conditions, administered unnecessary medications—including antipsychotics and sedatives—and neglected basic resident needs. The report also cited concerns about verbal mistreatment, lack of engaging activities, inadequate psychiatric care, and failure to protect residents’ personal belongings.
“Nursing homes are expected to provide their residents, which include some of our most vulnerable citizens, with quality care and to treat them with dignity and respect,” said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brenna Jenny of the Justice Department's Civil Division. “The Department will not tolerate nursing homes — or their owners or managing entities — abdicating these responsibilities and seeking taxpayer funds to which they are not entitled.”
American Health Foundation (AHF), its affiliate AHF Management Corporation, and two additional nursing homes—The Sanctuary at Wilmington Place (Wilmington Place) and Samaritan Care Center and Villa (Samaritan)—are also named in the filing.
The AHF entities agreed to enter into a chain-wide, quality of care Corporate Integrity Agreement with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, which will remain in effect for five years and address quality of care and resident safety within the AHF entities’ skilled nursing facilities.
The settlement resolves these allegations without admission of liability by the facility.
You can read the full press release here.
