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This center is a 60-certified bed Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services to residents of El Paso and El Paso County, Texas. The "non-profit" long-term care home is located at:
7304 Good Samaritan Ct
El Paso, Texas 79912
(915) 581-4683
Good Samaritan Society - White Acres Nursing Center
In addition to providing around the clock skilled nursing care, Good Samaritan Society - White Acres 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 legal responsibility of Texas and the federal government investigators to hold nursing homes accountable if they have violated rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. These penalties include monetary fines and the denial of payment for Medicare services.
The nursing home received four complaints over the last three years that resulted in a violation citation. Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Website.
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Your family can visit Medicare.gov and the Texas Department of Public Health website to obtain a complete list of all violations, citations, and deficiencies identified by investigators and surveyors.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of two out of five stars, including three out of five stars concerning health inspections, three out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to ensure [one resident] reviewed for pressure ulcers received the necessary treatment and services to prevent new ulcers from developing.”
The resident “developed a pressure ulcer on her sacrum after admission to the facility. This failure could place all residents at risk for pressure ulcers and those the develop pressure ulcers at risk for new in worsening wounds.”
The investigative team reviewed the resident’s Nurse and Admit Re-Admit data collection That Form dated May 11, 2018 indicating that the resident “had redness on her sacrum.” The resident’s Wound Registered Nurse Assessment Form dated May 11, 2018 documented “a non-pressure wound on the left rear leg. There was no documentation of the redness on her sacrum.”
A subsequent note indicated a Deep Tissue Injury on the sacrum, on the rear of the left lower leg, and on the great toe. There “was no documentation at the sacrum was blanchable or not.”
The facility “failed to maintain an infection control program designed to prevent the development and transmission of disease and infection.” The investigation involved one resident with a CPAP machine (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) who used a nebulizer.
Observations were made of a resident’s room that revealed “the tubing for the nebulizer machine was on top of the floor mat, a urinal was hanging on the side of the trash can, or torn floor mat on the side of the resident’s bed, and crash cards had dusty, dirty, lint, and dried White stains.”
In a different room, a CPAP mask “was dirty and was lying on top of the machine without being covered. These failures could place to residents on the CPAP machine, fifteen residents on the oxygen treatment, ten residents and nebulizers, and there were two crash cards and the medication room that could all place risk of exposure to infectious diseases.”
Do you believe that your loved one was the victim of abuse or neglect while living at Good Samaritan Society - White Acres Nursing Center? Contact the Texas nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent El Paso County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including El Paso.
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