Good Samaritan Society - Silver Wood Village Nursing Center

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This nursing center is a "non-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Silverton and Shoshone County, Idaho. The 50-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:

405 West Seventh Street
Silverton, Idaho 83867
(208) 556-1147
Good Samaritan Society - Silver Wood Village Nursing Center

In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Good Samaritan Society - Silver Wood Village Nursing Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.

The facility also provides Huntington’s disease care, post-acute rehab services, memory care, special care unit, hospice, adult day services, men’s behavioral care, respite care, traumatic brain injury (TBI) care, and senior living options.

Fined $66,009 for substandard care

When investigators working for the federal government identify severe violations of nursing home rules and regulations, they can penalize the facility by a denial of payment for Medicare services or impose monetary fines.

Within the last three years, investigators imposed two monetary penalties against Good Samaritan Society - Silver Wood Village Nursing Center, citing substandard care. These penalties include a $12,000 fine on October 12, 2018, and a $54,009 fine on May 22, 2017, for a total of $66,009. During this time, Medicare denied payment on May 22, 2017, due to a lack of quality care.

Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Idaho Adult Protective Services Website.

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To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Idaho and Medicare.com routinely update their long-term care home database systems with info on violations, citations, and deficiencies.

According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and three out of five stars for quality measures.

• Failure to Ensure the Nursing Home Area Remained Free of Accident Hazards and Risks and Provides Supervision to Prevent Avoidable Accidents – citation #F323 date June 24, 2016

The facility “failed to ensure side rails were assessed to determine if they were safe for resident use.” The nursing home also failed to ensure that residents who were “at risk for falls received the necessary supervision and assistance to prevent falls and that residents remain free from potential accident hazards.”

This deficient practice affected seven residents and “resulted in the potential harm when [seven residents experienced an increased risk of entrapment] when bed/side rails safety assessments were not completed.”

In one case, a resident “experienced multiple falls without evidence of increased supervision.” Another resident “experienced twenty-seven falls, and interventions were not revised to prevent falls.” A third resident “experienced multiple falls and interventions that were not revised to prevent falls.” A fourth resident “was at risk for experiencing a burn from a grate in front of the fireplace in the day room.”

• Failure to Develop, Implement and Enforce Policies That Prevent Mistreatment, Neglect or Abuse of Residents – citation #F226 date June 24, 2016

The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure two reference checks were completed [before] starting work in the facility for [two employees].” This failure placed ten residents under the care of an Aide and a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) “at risk for adverse events.”

One employee’s personnel file contained only one reference check “at the time of the review, seventy-two days after hire.” The CNAs “file did not contain reference checks at the time of the review, thirty days after hire.”

The Human Resources Specialists and Director of Nursing Services “reviewed the employee files and could not find the reference checks.” The Director stated that “she remembered calling the references for both and could not find where the documents were placed.”

Has your loved one been being mistreated or neglected while living at Good Samaritan Society - Silver Wood Village Nursing Center? Contact the Idaho nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Shoshone County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Silverton.

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Sources:

• Inspection Report - 06/24/2016
• Inspection Report - 10/12/2018