KC-area nursing home among worst in US; owner accused in NY human trafficking scam

Several more residents were struggling with painful, oozing bedsores, all of which should have been prevented, the inspector found. A few months later another resident almost died because staff failed to heed a doctor’s medication order.

Then the federal government put Hidden Lake Care Center on notice.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2017 added Hidden Lake to a nationwide list of “special focus facilities” — troubled nursing homes that have to be inspected more frequently because of persistently poor state inspections.

Nineteen months later, Hidden Lake is still on the list, the only facility in the Kansas City area. It’s since been added to a national sub-list of 36 “facilities that have not improved.” Only three of those nursing homes have been on the list longer.

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