MESQUITE POST ACUTE CARE in LUBBOCK, TX was fined $132,185 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 36 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.

MESQUITE POST ACUTE CARE (LUBBOCK, TX) — $132,185 in CMS Fines

Outcome: MESQUITE POST ACUTE CARE in LUBBOCK, TX was fined $132,185 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 36 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.

Deficiency areas cited:

• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.


• Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.


• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.


• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.


• Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.


• Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.


• Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.


• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.