Southampton Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers

Nursing homes in the Town of Southampton

Two Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes operate in the Town of Southampton, with 460 certified beds: The Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton and Westhampton Care Center in Westhampton.

One holds a five-star overall rating; one holds one star (The Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing). One was fined by CMS in roughly the last three years, for a combined $150,990. The average long-stay pressure-ulcer rate across the two homes reporting one is 5.5 percent, against a New York average of 6.5 percent and a national average of 4.5 percent. The Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing carries the CMS abuse icon.

What recent inspections found

Federal inspection reports are public. The most serious findings at homes in the town since 2023 — citations where inspectors found actual harm to a resident or immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety — include:

• The Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing: in November 2025, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for the federal rule on freedom from abuse and neglect (F600); in November 2025, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for failing to report alleged abuse or neglect as required (F609); in November 2025, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for failing to investigate, prevent and correct alleged abuse (F610).

A citation does not mean that your family member was harmed, and a clean record does not mean that they were not. What matters is the chart: the care plan, the turning and repositioning records, the skin assessments, the staffing for the shifts in question and what the home told you.

Bedsores and pressure injuries

A pressure injury that reaches Stage 3 or 4 often means the resident was left in one position too long, was not kept clean and dry, or was not eating and drinking enough, and that no one acted when the skin first changed. Federal rules require a home to prevent pressure ulcers unless they are clinically unavoidable and to treat them when they occur (42 C.F.R. § 483.25(b)). New York’s Public Health Law § 2801-d gives residents a direct right to sue when a home violates those rights.

Our free Family Guide to Bedsores explains each stage, how wounds are treated and what the home must document.

Southampton cases: court, deadlines and reporting

Cases from the Town of Southampton are filed in Supreme Court, Suffolk County, in Riverhead or Central Islip. When a resident has died, the estate is opened in Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court, 320 Center Drive, Riverhead; only the appointed administrator or executor can bring the wrongful death and survival claims, and we handle the limited letters of administration as part of the case.

Our main office is at 44 Elm Street in Huntington. We meet families at home, at the bedside or at the office.

• Public Health Law § 2801-d and negligence claims: generally three years from the injury (CPLR 214).
• Claims framed as medical malpractice: generally two years and six months (CPLR 214-a).
• Wrongful death: two years from the date of death (EPTL 5-4.1).

To report a problem: call 911 in an emergency; file a complaint with the New York State Department of Health, Centralized Complaint Intake, 1-888-201-4563; and contact the New York State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (ltcombudsman.ny.gov).