Failure to Complete Personal Property Inventory Upon Admission
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to ensure reasonable care for the protection of personal property for one resident. Upon admission, no personal property inventory form was completed for the resident, who had diagnoses including acute respiratory failure, diabetes, urine retention, chronic pain, and obstructive uropathy. The resident was assessed as cognitively intact and later reported missing a pair of ear pods, which he believed had been taken by staff approximately six months prior. He stated that he had reported the concern but could not recall to whom, and confirmed that no inventory list was filled out upon his admission. Review of the clinical record and the facility's inventory log book confirmed the absence of a personal property inventory for the resident. Interviews with staff, including an LPN and the director of clinical services, revealed that facility policy requires a belongings list to be created upon admission and maintained in a log book at the nurses' station. However, neither the medical record nor the log book contained an inventory list for the resident, and staff could not locate one despite searching. The facility's policy was reviewed and confirmed the requirement to complete a resident property list after advising the patient to send valuables and money home.