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Mistreatment of the elderly living in nursing homes is disgraceful, unacceptable, and reprehensible. Many families entrust the care of their loved one to the nursing home staff only to be horrified when they realize that they are being mistreated, neglected, or abused by caregivers, employees, or other patients.If your loved one was injured while living in a Montgomery County nursing facility, contact the Iowa Nursing Home Law Center attorneys now for immediate legal assistance. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages.
This Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "non-profit" home providing services to residents of Red Oak and Montgomery County, Iowa. The 88-certified bed long-term care home is located at:
201 Alix Avenue
Red Oak, Iowa 51566
(712) 623-3170
Good Samaritan Society - Red Oak Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Good Samaritan Society - Red Oak 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.
Fined $83,942 for substandard care
Iowa and federal agencies have the legal responsibility of monitoring every nursing home and imposing monetary fines are denying reimbursement payments through Medicare if investigators identify serious violations and deficiencies. These penalties are typically imposed when the violation his severe and harmed or could have harmed a resident.
Within the last thirty-six months, investigators imposed five monetary penalties against Good Samaritan Society - Red Oak Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $21,856 fine on January 31, 2019, a $13,325 fine on January 30, 2018, a $8,775 fine on October 12, 2017, a $11,544 fine on April 25, 2017, and a $28,442 fine on August 03, 2016, for a total of $83,942.
This nursing facility received six complaints and self-reported five serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Iowa Dependent Adult Protective Services Website.
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The state of Iowa 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 one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues and four out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to immediately report an allegation of resident to resident abuse for [one resident.” Investigation involved a severely, cognitively impaired resident who “walked in transfers independently.”
The Incident Report dated at 4:00 PM on July 8, 2016 document at the resident “had been struck on the arm by [another resident while sitting at that resident apposite as] table in attempting to converse with him/her.” Both residents were “separated and assess and the staff noted no apparent injuries. No further events occurred the remainder of the shift.”
Additional information indicates that the assaulting resident (who is gregarious had been irritated because [the injured resident’s] speech had been garbled.” A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) stated that she had “witnessed the altercation between [the resident’s].”
The CNA stated that one resident “walked in the dining room stood next to [the other resident, who then struck the first resident] with a closed fist and making contact on the resident’s arm.” The assaulting resident “had not been injured and staff had been directed to keep both residents apart from each other.”
The CNA reported that “there had not been any previous incidents between either resident and believed this to be an isolated incident.” The Director of nursing stated that “she had not been aware of the incident until the following Monday on July 11, 2016. When she became aware of the incident, she completed an online report to the Department of Inspections and Appeals.”
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Good Samaritan Society - Red Oak Nursing Center? Contact the Iowa nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Montgomery County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Red Oak.
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