Albuquerque Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer

The following nursing homes received the highest rating available of 5 stars.

• Advanced Healthcare of Albuquerque
• La Vida Llena
• Las Estancias by Pure Health
• South Valley Care Center LLC

Despite the high ratings, these facilities may still have areas of concern. For example, South Valley Care LLC prescribed antipsychotic medication to a shockingly high percentage of long-term care patients. This could indicate that the facility misuses this type of medication as a substitute for care.

Furthermore, auditors with the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office reviewed 256 Medicare claims and identified 51 cases of potential abuse that nursing homes should have reported. Out of the 51 cases, 43 were not reported.

This data led the auditors to estimate that 6,608 high-risk ER Medicare claims associated with incidents of potential abuse or neglect of beneficiaries living in nursing homes were not reported to the Survey Agencies in 2016.

In a preliminary audit, the auditors found 134 Medicare beneficiaries in 33 states — including New Mexico — who may have been victims of nursing home abuse or neglect and were unable to determine whether 35 of the cases were reported to law enforcement.

The audit did not include cases where a resident sustained an injury at a nursing home but was not treated in an emergency room. Thus, the report concludes, “there is a risk that other Medicare beneficiaries who were potentially abused or neglected remain unidentified.”