Failure to Offer Advance Directives and Provide Educational Materials
Penalty
Summary
Surveyor record reviews and staff interviews revealed that the facility failed to offer residents the opportunity to complete an advance directive and did not provide educational materials regarding advance directives. Specifically, for three residents reviewed, documentation in their social services assessments indicated that none had an advance directive in place, and there was no evidence that the facility had offered them or their representatives the chance to complete one or provided relevant educational materials. The deficiency was confirmed through interviews with the Regional Social Worker, who acknowledged that the residents and their representatives were neither offered the opportunity to complete advance directives nor given educational materials about them. The lack of documentation and absence of these required actions were consistently found across all three residents reviewed for advance directives.