Every staff member working in a nursing facility has a legal and ethical responsibility to provide each resident with the highest level of care according to established standards of quality. Unfortunately, many nursing facilities do not follow established procedures and protocols that prevent injuries, accidents, and the development of life-threatening pressure wounds.
If you suspect that your loved one was victimized through neglect or abuse while living in a Garland County nursing facility, the Arkansas Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys can help. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive financial compensation for your damages.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "non-profit" home providing services to residents of Hot Springs Village and Garland County, Arkansas. The 50-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
121 Cortez Rd
Hot Springs Village, Arkansas 71909
(501) 922-2000
Good Samaritan Society - Hot Springs Village Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Good Samaritan Society - Hot Springs Village Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, respiratory care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
The federal government has the legal authority to penalize any nursing facility that violates rules and regulations. These penalties include monetary fines and denial of payment for Medicare services. High monetary fines usually indicate extremely severe violations that harmed or could have harmed residents.
Within the last three years, Medicare denied payment on May 10, 2019, due to a lack of quality care. The nursing home received one complaint and self-reported one serious problem over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Arkansas Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Arkansas and Medicare.com routinely update their comprehensive list of deficiencies online to reflect all violations
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, four out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure adequate supervision was provided to prevent elopement, as evidenced by a failure to ensure staff closely monitored residents at risk for elopement [wandering away] and performed daily monitoring checks of the wander alert bracelets.”
The nursing home also failed to “ensure the wander alert bracelets were properly applied, as per manufacturer’s instructions, to prevent the failure of the bracelets to transmit a signal to the receiver when the resident approached an exit door.” The investigation involved one resident “who exhibited exit-seeking behaviors [and was] at increased risk of elopement.”
These “failed practices resulted in Immediate Jeopardy, which caused or could have caused serious harm, injury, or death to [the resident] who exhibited frequent ex-seeking behaviors, had an improperly applied a wander guard bracelet, and left the facility unnoticed by the staff.” The deficient practice “had the potential to cause more than minimal harm to two other residents who were at risk for elopement.”
The investigative team reviewed a Nursing Note indicating that a discussion had happened with the resident’s Responsible Party/Power of Attorney that “we cannot restrain [the resident] to prevent him from leaving the building, and that right now he can be redirected from wanting to leave.”
The nursing team decided to place the wander guard in the resident’s personal bag “that is attached to the back of his wheelchair” because he refused to wear it, would cut off, or think he is a prisoner.
Documentation shows four incidents of the resident “being upset and trying to leave the building.” One incident occurred on May 6, 2019, when a physical therapy assistant “saw the resident in the parking lot, next to the sidewalk, sitting in his wheelchair, which was stuck in the parking lot drain.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Good Samaritan Society - Hot Springs Village Nursing Center? Contact the Arkansas nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Garland County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Hot Springs Village.
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