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Elmwood Care Center has a middle-range Medicare overall rating. Strengths include professional rehabilitation and pt staff. Some reviewers note concerns about severe understaffing and slow response times (mentioned by 7 reviewers). Review the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure components separately, then visit in person.
Families should exercise extreme caution when considering Elmwood Care Center due to frequent and severe reports of medical negligence, medication errors, and dangerous understaffing. While some patients have experienced successful rehabilitation and praised specific nursing staff, these positive experiences are overshadowed by multiple accounts of patients being left in soiled bedding, experiencing life-threatening delays in care, and facing significant safety risks.
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Key Review Excerpts
“He came to them as a two person transfer and left as a minimum assist. His care was superb.”
“The management is horrible at communicating and does not care at all. The name of the facility does not live up to reality.”
“I was there for almost a year, it was the most horrible hell of my life, it needs to be shut down”
This facility meets both EveryPlace staffing reference benchmarks. Higher staffing is generally associated with stronger day-to-day care.
Reference benchmarks (0.75 RN and 4.1 total nursing hours per resident/day) are comparison targets, not current federal minimum requirements.
Resident outcomes compared with national, state, and local averages · 17 measures
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Residents on anti-anxiety or sleep medication
Residents with depression symptoms
Highly dependent on how each facility screens and codes depressive symptoms, so it varies widely between facilities.
Residents whose bladder or bowel control got worse
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Residents with pressure sores (bedsores)
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Short-stay residents vaccinated for the flu
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Short-stay residents newly given antipsychotics
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Detailed Medicare record · up to 3-year lookback
Families have filed multiple complaints triggering 13 deficiencies, with recent concerns about infection control, abuse/neglect reporting, and resident rights in 2025-2026. The facility shows recurring problems across nutrition and dietary services, fire safety systems, and infection control spanning multiple years. While all violations report correction dates, the pattern of repeated deficiencies in key areas like infection control (appearing in 2019, 2022, 2024, and 2025) suggests ongoing challenges with maintaining consistent standards.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Infection Control Deficiencies
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Infection Control Deficiencies
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Federal Penalties
Payment Denial
Feb 18, 2026
7-day denial
Elmwood Care Center
for profit
Pratap Poddatoori
6 facilities nationwide
Chain avg rating: 3.8/5 · Rank 6 of 6 (Lowest rating)
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Poddatoori, Pratap
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