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Riverview Healthcare Center: Abuse Violations - SD
On December 27, 2024, that person sent an email to the South Dakota Department of Health....
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On December 27, 2024, that person sent an email to the South Dakota Department of Health....
The scrambled eggs came in at 88.3 degrees....
What he couldn't explain was what any of it had to do with keeping residents safe....
The administrator confirmed it verbally as well....
She also said she wasn't sure which color meant which code status....
The admission came on February 10, 2025, at 4:14 in the afternoon....
The nursing home administrator didn't know the complaint existed....
The administrator had an explanation for that....
The facility's own internal safety committee, known as a QAPI committee, had been handed the audit results and charged with correcting the deficiencies....
It means the body is running out of options....
The new citation did not describe a facility that had ignored the problem....
A federal inspector recorded the temperature and flagged it....
That finding, Immediate Jeopardy, is the most serious classification available to federal inspectors under the Medicare and Medicaid oversight system....
What LPN B found when she arrived wasn't just a paperwork problem....
The resident walked out into freezing weather....
That belief shaped everything that followed....
The August 8, 2024 inspection was a complaint survey, meaning someone had raised concerns serious enough to trigger a return visit....
What the records showed was this: the facility had gone without a registered nurse on duty on ten separate days between Christmas and mid-January....
At Rio Hondo, that system had broken down across four distinct areas, each one touching something fundamental about how a nursing home is supposed to operate....
The administrator-in-training acknowledged this herself....