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Mom bedridden with dementia was not being well cared for in SNF. Tried filing complaints with state & numerous meetings etc. Nothing helped so moved her yesterday to a private Sr care home owned & operated by a geriatric /wound care LVN with 3 beds max. She will continue on hospice care. Mom seems very happy and loves the caregiver. I guess im just nervous theres no oversight by any entity eventhough our experience with the DHHS in TX hasnt been any help. She has evacuation plans & other safety measures in place and administers all her meds, cooks her meals etc . Praying this will be a great place for her where she can flourish

It’s probably a “board and care home”. They fall under residential homes and what their license is dependent on # of elders. 1-3 runs as an Adult Foster Home alos called a Personal Care Home; and they seem to only require that an adult is in the home at all time for oversight. The adult is usually one of the homeowners. If more than 4 can’t be this and will have one of the types of Assisted Living licenses. The smaller ones will usually be a Type A license and they do NOT require an RN to ever be there. The nursing supervision can be that they have a “RN on call” availability.

That what you found for your mom is run by an LVN with some type of geriatric training for only 3 residents is beyond fortunate.

Now the “wound care” does have specific training requirements for the level of care they can hands-on do. There’s 2 certifications WOCN and WCC. If they don’t have these, they still can do wound care but it’s supposed to be under “direct supervision”. To me it’s kinda like having that rule to have an RN with “on call availablity”, could be great or could be crap. That this lady is keeping it to 3 residents is a very good sign.

The owners will have to have a background check for felonies and have Health & Safety permit (I think it’s the Co who does this). Imho regulations to operate a small under 5-6 person residential care home for State of TX oversight are pretty loose & with minimal oversight by the State. The entity that will be strict will be the local Fire Department on making sure that the facilty has open pathways, marked exists, extinguishers. It’s a real YMMV situation to me.

Google State of TX residential homes regulation’s.
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As far as I know she has no supervision from anyone with a higher license. The hospice nurse i suppose would be that person but the LVN / LPN doesn't work for the hospice company. Im just unclear what these private homes can and cannot do in their scope of practice
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This LVN, from what I just read, has to answer to an RN. Where I live, its LPN, Licenced practical Nurse. They have 1 year of training and can get certification for other things like woundcare.

Sounds like you have found a nice place for Mom to spend her final days.
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