Expired Medications Not Removed from Storage
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors observed that the facility failed to remove expired medications from the supply available for use in two of three medication storage rooms reviewed. In the Kennebunk River Unit, two prepackaged syringes of Heparin lock flush with expiration dates of 4/30/25 were found in the emergency intravenous medication and supply stock, and a vial of Insulin Lispro prescribed to a resident who had been discharged on 4/16/25 was still stored in the medication refrigerator. The unit nurse manager confirmed these findings at the time of observation. In the Mousam River Unit, a vial of PPD labeled with an opened date of 6/1/25 remained available for resident use beyond the recommended 30-day period, as confirmed by the Market Clinical Advisor during the observation. These observations indicate that expired and potentially unusable medications were not properly removed from medication storage areas, making them accessible for use.