Failure to Properly Label and Date Medications
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors observed that drugs and biologicals in the facility were not consistently labeled and dated according to professional standards. On multiple medication carts and in a medication storage room, several medications, including albuterol inhalers, fluticasone sprays, and a vial of Aplisol, were found either without resident names, without dates indicating when they were opened, or both. Specifically, some inhalers were labeled only with a resident's name and lacked an open date, while others had neither a name nor a date. The Aplisol vial in the medication room was missing an open date despite being received from the pharmacy months prior. The facility's policy requires that multi-dose vials and certain medications be dated when opened and discarded within 28 days, but this was not followed in the observed instances.