Nursing home cited for violations after resident’s leg is amputated

RED OAK, Iowa ( IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH ) - A western Iowa nursing home has been cited by the state for failing to provide adequate nursing services for a woman whose leg was later amputated.

The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing has cited the Good Samaritan nursing home in Red Oak with failing intervene when a female resident’s condition worsened, and with failing to properly assess the woman’s impaired circulation in her leg despite a diagnosis related to gangrene.

According to inspectors, the resident was crying and complaining of serious pain in her right leg early in the afternoon of Aug. 3, 2025. The staff provided paid medication through the night and the next morning. By the afternoon of Aug. 4, the staff was documenting that the woman’s leg had turned purple