Dorya Huser, chief of long-term care for the health department, said Thursday, "We have filed to revoke the license of the Hominy Nursing Home."
Huser said Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. is also being fined for $400,000 for 50 deficiencies found by inspectors at the home during an annual inspection.
Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. was also cited for 41 deficiencies at the Pawhuska Nursing Home this week.
Lloyd Haskins, a part owner of Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. and manager of the company, said Wednesday that corrections would be made as quickly as possible at the Pawhuska Nursing Home. He said the company did not receive the state report until Tuesday.
In addition the company's nursing home in Drumright had 11 deficiencies, including non-working door alarms which allowed an Alzheimer's patient to wander away.
Huser said Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. has 10 calendar days to answer the deficiency report on the Pawhuska Nursing Home. "We will certainly work with them if they need more time" to prepare the reply, Huser said.
Haskins said Wednesday he hoped to have an answer prepared for the health department by the end of the week. He said Oklahoma Nursing Homes "will take the appropriate actions" to correct the deficiencies at the Pawhuska Nursing Home. Corrections are already underway at the Drumright Nursing Home, including working door alarms, Huser reported.
Huser said the health department will expect a "plan of correction" to begin for the Pawhuska Nursing Home, and the state will then make another unannounced inspection of the home. The unannounced inspection usually takes place within six months, she added.
The Hominy Nursing Home, which received 50 deficiencies when only 10 are the average, is on the verge of closing, Huser said.
Because of the deficiencies the administrator, Flora Brown Williams, was removed and replaced by the state health department with an interim administrator, Fred Gipson, a Norman attorney.
Huser said Thursday that the population of that 63-bed facility has shrunk to about 20 residents. "The census," Huser said, "is low at the Hominy Nursing Home and the manager is trying to reassure people that everything is improving."
Huser said she doubts the Hominy Nursing Home can continue to operate because of the loss of residents and operating funds. "I expect they will be really struggling if the census doesn't go up," Huser said.
Huser said earlier that the health department can ask that the nursing home be closed, but cannot file charges against the owner of the Hominy Nursing Home. She added that the attorney general's Medicaid/Medicare fraud unit has been in touch with the health department about the Hominy facility.
Haskins said Wednesday, "We had an administrator (at the Hominy Nursing Home) that didn't operate within regulations."
Haskins said Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. field staff members go to the homes to do inspections for the company. If the nursing home staff does not report problems to the field staff, Haskins said, "we have no way to review the problems."
Huser said if the deficiencies are not corrected, the nursing home company faces fines and closure because the Medicaid and Medicare payments are stopped and licenses cancelled.
Huser said last week Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. was facing possible fines of more than $80,000 for deficiencies found at the Pawhuska Nursing Home.
Haskins said Wednesday that Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. began to correct the deficiencies immediately.
The deficiencies alleged at the nursing homes ranged from threadbare sheets to sexual and physical abuse to possibly the death of at least one resident who was reported to have been given Maalox for chest pains and who later died of a heart attack. That incident occurred at the Drumright Nursing Home.
Oklahoma Nursing Homes Ltd. owns 12 nursing homes. They are Osage Nursing Home in Nowata; Hominy Nursing Home; Skiatook Nursing Home; Fairfax Manor; Drumright Nursing Home; Yale Nursing Home; Pawhuska Nursing Home; Hays House in Nowata; Oakridge Home in Wewoka; Okmulgee Terrace; Eastwood Manor in Commerce; and Miami Nursing Center.
The owners and their percentages of Oklahoma Nursing Home Ltd. are, according to the health department:
Glen Armstrong Trust of Vian, 1.09 percent
James Armstrong of Vian, 2.08 percent
Joyce Armstrong of Vian, 2.08 percent
Richard Armstrong of Vian, 2.08 percent
Julie Bivin of Stroud, 2.45 percent
Jim Breashears of Sallisaw, 2.35 percent
Jamie Breashears Tower of Arlington, Va., 5 percent
Barnie Cheek of Sallisaw, 7.35 percent
Bernie Cheek Trust of Tulsa, 1.8 percent
Masako Cheek Trust of Tulsa, 1.8 percent
Sandra Cheek Farmer Trust of Tulsa, 3.74 percent
Pat Estep of Athens, Texas, 4.89 percent
Clayton L. Farmer Trust A of Sallisaw, 5.94 percent
Clayton L. Farmer Trust B of Sallisaw, 1.40 percent
Lloyd Haskins of Sallisaw, 5.15 percent
Carolyn Leaverton of Broken Arrow, 2.08 percent
Birdie McPherson Trust of Broken Arrow, 4.22 percent
Birdie McPherson Trust of Madison, Ind., 4.22 percent
Oklahoma Nursing Homes Inc. of Sallisaw, 1.04 percent
Stanley L. Tubbs Jr. of Houston, Texas, 4.75 percent
Steven Tubbs of Miami, 12.39 percent
William R. VanDeLinder of Adair, 2.45 percent
Cleo Watts of Sallisaw, 4.59 percent
Watts Beneficiaries Trust of Sallisaw, 5.21 percent
William McKesson Wilson Sr. 1997 Trust of Claremore, 7.35 percent
Lynn Yowell of Bentonville, Ark., 2.45 percent.
