Many families are overwhelmed when they make the ultimate decision to place a loved one in a nursing home to ensure the quality of their life is maximized. They believe that they will receive the best care in a compassionate, respected, and safe environment. Unfortunately, not all members of the nursing team will uphold their responsibility and provide care that meets the resident’s needs.
If your loved one was injured, harmed, or mistreated while living in a Gregg County nursing facility, contact the Texas Nursing Home Law Center Attorneys now for immediate legal help. Our team of abuse prevention lawyers can work on your family’s behalf to ensure you receive monetary compensation for your damages. Let us begin working on your case today.
This facility is a 100-certified bed "for profit" long-term care home providing services and cares to residents of Gladewater and Gregg County, Texas. The Medicare and Medicaid-participating center is located at:
1201 FM 2685
Gladewater, Texas 75647
(903) 845-2175
Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center - Gladewater
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Legend Oaks Healthcare, and Rehabilitation Center - Gladewater offers other services. Additional focused care includes in-house therapies, pulmonary programs, speech and language therapies, neurological condition care, wound care, and swallowing dysfunction services involving electrical stimulation.
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.
This nursing facility received one complaint and self-reported two serious issues over the last three years that resulted in violation citations. Additional documentation about fines and penalties can be found on the Texas Health and Human Services Nursing Facility Quality Review Website.
To ensure families are fully informed of the level of care every nursing home provides, the state of Texas 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 two out of five stars, including three 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 the right to be free from abuse was provided for [one resident] reviewed for abuse. The facility did not prevent [the resident] from being verbally and physically abused by [a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).”
The CNA told the resident “not to touch her with those ‘shi**y’ hands’, and they need to have the hospital to ‘check your brain’ while providing incontinent care.” Another CNA “did not report immediately when [the allegedly abusive CNA] verbally abused the resident.” Additionally, the allegedly abusive CNA sprayed the resident “with cold water, causing him to jump.”
A review of the severely, cognitively impaired resident’s most recent MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment revealed “disorganized thinking.” The resident “was incontinent of bowel and bladder and required extensive assistance with activities of daily living. There were no behaviors noted.”
A review of the resident’s Care Plan revealed that the resident “had the potential for behavior problems due to being fixated on bowel issues, [who] frequently complained of either being constipated or having diarrhea related to a disease process due to [their medical condition].”
A Provider Report indicated that on October 11, 2018, at 3:30 PM, the resident “had a fall and [the other CNA assisted the allegedly abusive CNA] with getting the resident up from the floor. It was said to [the reporting CNA by the allegedly abusive CNA that ****] was everywhere and the resident knew what he was doing.”
The report indicated that the allegedly abusive CNA told the resident not to touch her using the words noted above and that the resident needed to have his brain worked on at the hospital. The report indicated later, “in the shower room, [the allegedly abusive CNA] sprayed cold water on [the resident’s] body.” That CNA was “suspended, then terminated after the investigation.”
Do you believe that your loved one has suffered harm or injury through mistreatment while living at Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center - Gladewater? Contact the Texas nursing home abuse lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Gregg County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Gladewater.
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