Mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing facilities are often the result of the nursing staff or other caregivers not providing the resident care according to established standards of quality. Their inappropriate behavior often leads to harm, injury, or wrongful death. In other incidents, the victim is assaulted by other residents.
If your loved one was harmed while living in a Harris County nursing facility, contact the Texas nursing home network of attorneys at (800) 926-7565 now for immediate legal intervention. Let our team of abuse prevention lawyers handle your case to ensure you receive monetary compensation. We will use the law to hold those responsible for causing the harm legally accountable.
This nursing center is a "for-profit" Medicare and Medicaid-participating facility providing services and cares to residents of Houston and Harris County, Texas. The 125-certified bed long-term care nursing home is located at:
15880 Wallisville Road
Houston, Texas 77049
(281) 457-6462
Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center offers other services. Additional focused care includes short-term and long term care.
The facility also provides comprehensive rehab services, wound care, medically-complex care, respiratory care, pulmonary care, IV (intervenous) care, post-stroke care, pain management, hospice, oncology care, dementia, and memory care, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Fined $197,050 for substandard care
Texas nursing home regulators and federal inspectors have the legal authority to penalize any nursing home identified as violating rules and regulations that harmed or could have harmed a resident. Typically, these penalties include monetary fines and denial for payment of medical services.
Within the last three years, federal investigators imposed a monetary fine against Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center for $197,050 on October 14, 2017, citing substandard care. This nursing home received twelve complaints and self-reported one serious issue over the last thirty-six months that resulted in violation citations.
Additional information concerning the facility can be reviewed on the State of Texas Department of Family and 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 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 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.
The state investigators determined that the nursing home “failed to implement written policies that prohibit and prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation of residents and misappropriation of resident property.” The investigation involved six employees including a Dietary Aide, the Director of Nursing, Physical Therapist, and a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) reviewed for criminal history checks.
The investigators determined that “the facility failed to conduct criminal history checks to ensure the staff member was employable. These failures could place residents in the facility at risk for potential abuse, neglect, or misappropriation.”
The nursing home “failed to ensure each resident was free from neglect for [three residents] reviewed for neglect. The facility failed to prevent the development or worsening of facility-acquired pressure ulcers for [one resident] who was identified at risk to develop pressure sores.”
The facility “failed to implement a Plan of Care when he was identified at risk to develop pressure sores.” The resident “developed a facility-acquired pressure sore that was first identified as a [significantly progressing] Stage III to his left buttocks. The pressure sore advanced to a Stage IV [life-threatening] pressure sore.”
It was determined that “the facility failed to follow the doctor recommendations to offload the resident’s Stage IV pressure ulcer [and] failed to provide the appropriate treatment and implement preventive measures to avoid the deterioration of [the resident’s] Stage IV pressure sore.”
The resident “was found with a Deep Tissue Injury on the outside of his Stage IV pressure sore, foul odor on the wound, and a large reddened area covering most of his left buttocks.”
Do you believe that your loved one is the victim of harm, mistreatment, abuse, or neglect while living at Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center? Contact the Texas nursing home abuse prevention lawyers at Nursing Home Law Center at (800) 926-7565 for immediate legal intervention. We represent Harris County victims of abuse and neglect in all areas, including Houston.
Discuss your case with us now through an initial case consultation at no charge to you. Also, we offer a 100% “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee. This promise means we postpone payment for our services until after our law firm has secured a monetary recovery on your behalf. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
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