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 or died unexpectedly while living in a Hunt County nursing facility, contact the Texas 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 long-term care center is a 126-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Greenville and Hunt County, Texas. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility is located at:
2300 Jack Finney Blvd
Greenville, Texas 75402
(903) 455-7942
Legend Healthcare and Rehabilitation - Greenville Nursing Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Legend Healthcare, and Rehabilitation - Greenville Nursing Center offers other services.
Additional focused care includes in-house therapy, wound care, pulmonary program, speech and language therapies, and swallowing dysfunction care involving electrical stimulation.
Both the federal government and the state of Texas have the legal responsibility to levy monetary fines or deny payments through Medicare if a nursing home has violated established rules and regulations that harm or could have harmed residents.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Legend Healthcare And Rehabilitation - Greenville Nursing Center for $6,636 on April 19, 2017, citing substandard care. During this time, Medicare denied payment on April 19, 2017, due to a lack of quality care.
This nursing home received five complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations. Additional information about this nursing home can be found on the Texas Health and Human Services Nursing Facility Quality Review Website.
The federal government and Texas Department of Public Health website update comprehensive information containing historical details of all citations and violations.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures.
The state investigators determined that “the facility failed to ensure each resident was free from abuse, neglect, misappropriation of resident property, and exploitation.” The investigation involved one resident “reviewed for abuse and neglect.”
Specifically, a Licensed Vocational Nurse failed to assess the resident “on the significance of the resident’s pain and having the resident wait over an hour for pain medication.” The documentation shows that the Licensed Vocational Nurse was “loud and shook her head in [the resident’s] face, told the resident that the doctor should order pain medication differently and she would have to wait for the medication.”
The Licensed Vocational Nurse “also told the resident she was working two halls.” These failures placed the resident “at increased risk for unrelieved pain-and-suffering, and the forty-six residents on pain management at risk for managed pain control and the fifty-one residents on Hall 100 and 300 where [the Licensed Vocational Nurse] worked for abuse and unmet needs.”
The resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment reflected that the resident “was cognitively alert and oriented and able to make decisions and relate her needs without difficulty.” The resident’s Pain Assessment Scale reflected that the resident “was a high risk of pain at a level of twelve. [Any] level greater than ten was a high risk for pain.”
The resident’s Care Plan reflected “she was at risk for pain. The goal was to be able to verbalize pain. The interventions were to monitor for signs and symptoms of pain, follow the pain scale, monitor and record the pain, observe for non-verbal pain, moaning, allow the resident to verbalize feelings of pain or discomfort.”
The state surveyors observed and interviewed the resident on the morning of May 1, 2017. The resident stated that she “had her call light on and she had it on for a while, and she needed to go to the bathroom.” The resident “revealed she had a problem getting her pain medication on the night shift.”
The resident revealed that on one night (April 23, 2014), “she was suffering from her leg, and she could not get her pain pill. The nurse came in and asked what she wanted, and when the resident asked for her pain medication, the nurse said she would have to wait.”
When “the resident inquired further, the nurse got in her face and said she would have to wait, was loud, shook her head at the resident and said you are not the only one who gets medicine at 11:00 PM.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm through mistreatment while living at Legend Healthcare And Rehabilitation - Greenville Nursing Center? Contact the Texas nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Hunt County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Greenville.
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