Good Samaritan Society - St Johns Nursing Center

Are you concerned that your loved one living in a nursing facility might be the victim of mistreatment? Were they injured in a preventable fall or develop avoidable bedsores because the nursing home neglected to provide adequate supervision or nursing care? Did the facility’s caregivers, visitors, or other patients physically, sexually, verbally or mentally abuse your loved one?

The Nebraska Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys fight aggressively to maintain the rights of Buffalo County nursing home patients. Our team of abuse prevention lawyers uses the law to obtain financial compensation for victims who want to seek justice for their injuries. Contact us now so we can begin working on your case today.

This nursing facility is a "non-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating home providing services to residents of Kearney and Buffalo County, Nebraska. The 77-certified bed long-term care center is located at:

3410 Central Avenue
Kearney, Nebraska 68847
(308) 234-1888
Good Samaritan Society - St Johns

In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Good Samaritan Society - St Johns 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.

It is the responsibility of federal and state investigators to penalize any nursing home that has violated a rule or regulation that caused harm or could have caused harm to a resident. Many of these penalties involve monetary fines or denial of payment for Medicare services.

This nursing facility received eight complaints and self-reported four serious issues over the three years 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 three 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 April 16, 2018

The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to report to capital Protective Services a resident to resident incident of potential verbal abuse.”

A review of the facility’s Investigation Report revealed that on May 5, 2018, the resident “had a potential verbal abuse against [a second resident]. The facility investigated the incident on March 5, 2018 and initiated interventions to protect [the resident] immediately on March 5, 2018. The report revealed Adult Protective Services was not notified” until ten days later on May 15, 2018.”

The facility administrator confirmed that “the resident to resident verbal altercation was not called into Dull Protective Services until ten days after the incident.”

• Failure to Provide Every Resident an Environment Free of Accident Hazards and Provide Adequate Supervision to Prevent Avoidable Accidents – citation date #Avenue 689 date April 16, 2018

The facility “failed to protect residents from an accident with an injury.” The Nursing Progress Note revealed that the resident was “found on the floor while the staff [was doing] rounds. The resident was assessed for injuries in pain but denied any pain.”

The resident stated that “the resident was trying to get their clothes off, so the resident could get dressed for church.” A review of the resident’s Care Plan History identified the resident had a sensory pad in bed as of October 3, 2017, as a fall intervention. However, “the sensor pad intervention was taken off the Care Plan on November 21, 2017 with the fall mat at bedside added to the care plan.”

However, because the fall mat was already an intervention since September 5, 2018, it was not added to the New Fall Intervention to replace the sensor pad intervention.” A Nurse Progress Note indicated that the resident “had an unwitnessed fall in their room.”

Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Good Samaritan Society - St Johns 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 Kearney.

You will not be charged to discuss your case with our legal team during an initial, free case review. Also, we provide a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means that you will owe us nothing until we have secured financial compensation on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.

Sources:

• Inspection Report - 04/16/2018
• Inspection Report - 04/16/2018