Woodstock Care Center v. Thompson

Woodstock Care Center (“Woodstock”), in an action against United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and Tommy Thompson, in his capacity as Secretary of the HHS, seeks review of a Civil Monetary Penalty (“CMP”) imposed against Woodstock by the Health Care Financing Administration (“HCFA”), 1 an agency within HHS. A survey of Woodstock, a long-term care facility for mentally disturbed residents participating in the federal Medicare and Ohio Medicaid programs, discovered numerous incidents in which residents had been able to escape from the facility (referred to as…