Texas Nursing Home Put on Federal Watch List, Administrator "Doesn't Know Why"
According to Clark McLaurin, the Administrator of Keller Oaks Healthcare Center, "we don't really know" why the facility was deemed a special focus facility and was put onto the federal watch list for nursing home facilities.
Among the deficiencies that Keller Oaks, a North Richland Hills, Texas nursing home facility, was cited for were deficiencies for failing to feed residents properly and failure to administer needed medications and failure to keep the nursing home free of dangers to residents.
Participation in the federal program is designed to help nursing homes showing a pattern of serious deficiencies to turn their program around. Failure to correct existing problems can result in penalties from fines to termination of participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
