Four nursing homes in a Daily Globe's coverage area were cited for 10 or some-more deficiencies during their three many recent inspections. The four have been a Good Samaritan Society, Dodge City; Hodgeman County Health Center, Jetmore; Satanta District Hospital Long Term Care Unit, Satanta; as well as Trinity Manor, Dodge City, according to a headlines recover from Kansas Advocates for Better Care. The nonprofit advocacy organization assists nursing home residents as well as their families. During their many recent inspection, three nursing homes were cited for actual harm, immediate jeopardy and/or deficiencies that were classified as mistreatment by a federal Centers for Medicare as well as Medicaid Services. Those facilities were a Good Samaritan Society, Hodgeman County Health Center as well as a Satanta long-term care unit.Reactions Terri Deuel, director of a Hodgeman County Health Center, pronounced Wednesday that a nursing home was cited for fourteen deficiencies, including one two years ago that could have harmed residents. Most of a problems were related to policies as well as procedures. For example, during one time a nursing home lacked a process requiring staffers to forewarn a physician during your convenience a resident's medication changed, Deuel said. But she pronounced a trickery has adopted that process as well as corrected alternative problems. "I know fourteen deficiencies sounds like a lot," Deuel said. "But when they're not based on care issues or harm, as well as we do correct those, I consider we have a very nice trickery for a area." Evelyn Montandon, director for a Good Samaritan Society, pronounced a deficiencies were identified during a Jun investigation as well as corrected quickly. She combined that a problems have not cropped up again since a last inspection. "We have always been means to just clear them up, where many nursing homes can't do that," she said. "And it's only one point in time, so people need to realize that as well." Montandon pronounced she did not recall a exact nature of a problems, though they would not have put patients during risk unless they continued. A 2010 investigation of a Satanta long-term care unit turned up twelve deficiencies, though they have been corrected, pronounced CEO Ron Baker. He combined that a facility's staffers consider of state inspections as opportunities to improve residents' care. "Some folks will really fight these things as well as try to interest them as well as try to argue, 'Well, maybe you shouldn't be giving me that deficiency,'" he said. "We try not to do that here. We try to take what they say, conflict as well as improve, as well as we did do that." Baker pronounced he expected state inspectors would find fewer deficiencies during a subsequent visit. Human resources director Darlene Lucas combined that many of a deficiencies were teenager problems that were easily corrected. "Certainly, there have been facilities where direct mistreat is an issue, as well as that certainly is not a case here," she said. "They're teenager infractions. Although they have been deficiencies, they have been teenager in a ability to alter them to where we have been within a regulatory framework."Ratings Federal law requires Kansas to inspect its nursing homes every 15 months, as well as investigation teams have been done up of nurses employed by a Kansas Department on Aging. The inspections have been intended to ensure that nursing home residents embrace care that meets state as well as federal standards. Deficiencies have been divided into four categories, from a least critical to a many severe, according to Bradley Radatz, director of Trinity Manor. Deficiencies in a first category, referred to as "A," "B" or "C," have been a least severe. The many severe deficiencies, commonly well known as "immediate jeopardy," have been labeled "J," "K" or "L." Within each category, deficiencies have been listed by either they start only one or two residents, a few or many. Radatz pronounced Trinity Manor had some-more than 10 deficiencies in 2008, nine in 2009 as well as 10 last year. He pronounced a nursing home had a G-level scarcity in 2008 though nothing on top of a second tier since then. The nursing home had nine in its many recent inspection, that was completed Dec. 19. "For me, that's a series I'm flattering happy with," he said. He pronounced a state normal for a past three years has been fourteen deficiencies, as well as Trinity Manor has always been below a average. Reach Eric Swanson during (620) 408-9917 or email him during eric.swanson@dodgeglobe.com.
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