Good Samaritan Society - Ravenna Nursing Center

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This long-term care center is a 61-certified bed "non-profit" home providing services to residents of Ravenna and Buffalo County, Nebraska. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:

411 West Genoa
Ravenna, Nebraska 68869
(308) 452-3230
https://www.good-sam.com/locations/ravenna

In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Good Samaritan Society - Ravenna Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.

The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, assisted and independent living options, medically-complex care, respiratory care, bariatric care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, enteral nutrition, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.

The federal government and the state of Nebraska are authorized to penalize any nursing home with monetary fines or deny payment for Medicare services when the facility has been cited for serious violations of rules and regulations.

This nursing facility self-reported four serious problems over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Website.

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Our attorneys obtain and review data on every Nebraska long-term care home from various online publically available sources including the Department of Public Health website and Medicare.gov.

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 four out of five stars for quality measures.

• Failure to Timely Report Suspected Abuse, Neglect or Theft and Report the Results of the Investigation to Proper Authorities – citation date #F609 date May 31, 2018

The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to report a significant injury of unknown origin to the State Agency within the required time frame for [one resident].” A review of the resident’s Progress Note dated May 15, 2018 revealed that the resident “was found on the floor in the room and had a head injury that requires [the resident] to be transferred to the emergency room for stitches to the forehead.”

A review of the Facts Report documented that the significant injury was submitted to the State Agency on May 30, 2018, “eleven working days after the incident occurred.” This delayed reporting was in violation of federal and state regulations.

• Failure to Develop, Implement and Enforce Policies That Prevent Mistreatment, Neglect or Abuse of Residents – citation #F226 date October 30, 2017

The facility “staff failed to submit a written report regarding a fall was significant injury for [one resident] within the required time frame.” The investigation involved a severely, cognitively impaired resident who “require limited assistance from one staff person for bed mobility, transfers, locomotion on the unit, dressing, and toilet use.”

The documentation shows that the resident had “one fall with no injury since admission/entry a re-injury or the prior assessment.” Documentation including a Progress Note dated October for 2017 revealed that the resident “fell and was transferred to the hospital.” The resident had “a fractured pelvis” after falling on October for 2017.”

The investigators reviewed the resident’s Progress Note that revealed “no documentation that the written report of investigation of the fall was significant injury was submitted to the State Agency within the required time frame.”

The investigators interviewed the Director of nursing who confirmed that the resident “fell and suffered a fractured pelvis on October for 2017 [and confirmed that] there was no documentation the written investigation was submitted to the State Agency within the required time frame.”

The investigators reviewed the facility’s policy titled Abuse and Neglect revised in November 2016. The document reads in part: “all investigations will be reported to the State Survey and Certification Agency within five working days of the incident.”

Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Good Samaritan Society - Ravenna Nursing Center? Contact the Nebraska nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Buffalo County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Ravenna.

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Sources:

• Inspection Report - 10/30/2017
• Inspection Report - 04/25/2018