Mescalero Care Center
Certified for Medicare and Medicaid since 2003-12-17, Mescalero Care Center is a 40-bed nursing home in Mescalero, New Mexico, averaging 38.1 residents a day.
Has Mescalero Care Center been cited for violations?
CMS lists 63 health-inspection deficiencies for Mescalero Care Center since 2023-06-15, 49 of them in the three years to 2026-08-01: the highest scope-and-severity letter on record is F; the most recent health inspection was 2026-06-10.
| Survey date | Tag | Deficiency | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | F0628 | Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies. | E |
| 2025-12-05 | F0568, F0600, F0658 | Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home. / Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | E |
| 2025-12-05 | F0609 | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | D |
| 2025-05-19 | F0801, F0812 | Employ sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, including a qualified dietician. / Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | F |
| 2025-05-19 | F0580, F0605, F0628, F0641, F0657, F0658, F0679, F0712, F0730, F0756, F0791, F0842, F0941, F0942, F0944, F0945, F0947 | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function. / Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies. / Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. / Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. / Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. / Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits. / Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. / Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures. / Provide or obtain dental services for each resident. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. / Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program that includes effective communications for direct care staff members. / Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents. / Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program. / Include as part of its infection prevention and control program, mandatory training that includes written standards, policies, and procedures for the program. / Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. | E |
| 2025-05-19 | F0552, F0636, F0637, F0638, F0640, F0655, F0656, F0689, F0943, F0949 | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. / Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. / Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition / Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months. / Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. / Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. / Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation. / Provide behavior health training consistent with the requirements and as determined by a facility assessment. | D |
| 2025-02-27 | F0561 | Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. | E |
| 2024-05-22 | F0727, F0812, F0867, F0880 | Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. / Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. / Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | F |
| 2024-05-22 | F0657, F0688, F0712, F0791, F0842, F0949 | Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. / Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits. / Provide or obtain dental services for each resident. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. / Provide behavior health training consistent with the requirements and as determined by a facility assessment. | E |
| 2024-05-22 | F0636, F0656, F0684, F0919 | Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area. | D |
| 2023-06-15 | F0726, F0727, F0730, F0851, F0947 | Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. / Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. / Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. / Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data. / Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. | F |
| 2023-06-15 | F0636, F0640, F0695, F0745, F0758, F0761, F0812 | Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. / Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. / Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. / Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. / Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. / Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. / Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | E |
| 2023-06-15 | F0655, F0842 | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | D |
How is Mescalero Care Center staffed?
| Measure | This facility | NM average |
|---|---|---|
| Average number of residents per day | 38.1 | 84.9 |
Who owns Mescalero Care Center?
Mescalero Care Center is registered with CMS as Non profit - Other, operates under the legal business name MESCALERO CARE CENTER.
| Role | Owner | Association date |
|---|---|---|
| 5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST | MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE | since 12/01/2003 |
| CORPORATE DIRECTOR | ESQUIBEL, CAROL | since 06/29/2020 |
| CORPORATE OFFICER | CERVANTES, NELVA | since 06/29/2020 |
| OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE, ESQUIBEL, CAROL | since 06/29/2020 |
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