Denver City resident Connie Lozano met with Commissioners at their weekly meeting on Monday where she had several issues concerning Shinnery Oaks nursing home.
She started off by stating she, along with a large portion of the county residents, were unaware the facility was being ran by a private company out of Lubbock. She noted she had always been under the impression that the county ran the nursing home.
Her main concern was over the treatment of her dad at the facility. After moving her parents to Denver City in December she soon realized she would not be able to care for her 88-year-old father, who is in stage 4 of dementia. Thinking Shinnery Oaks was her only option she had him admitted to the facility.
Lozano said things did not go well from the beginning, especially preliminary meetings with the administrators on getting her father admitted.
Things only got worse after her unattended father had fallen twice which resulted in a broken hip on his first fall and a severe laceration to his head on the second fall. No one at the facility could explain why he fell or why he was not helped in his attempt to go to the restroom.
It was after the second fall that Lozano learned her father could no longer stay at the facility, that he had become a “safety” issue and if he fell one more time it would result in a state audit of the facility and possibly losing their license.
