Environmental Maintenance Deficiencies Affecting Resident Safety and Comfort
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors observed that the facility failed to maintain essential environmental features in resident rooms and bathrooms, including toilet rails, thresholds, walls, floors, and dressers. Multiple bathrooms had handrails attached to toilets that were loose and moved several inches when touched, compromising their stability. Broken and missing tiles were noted on bathroom walls, and some thresholds had damaged or missing linoleum tiles. Additional observations included dirty and rust-colored sinks, milky pink toilet water, incontinence odors, and heavily scraped door frames with paint removed. In one case, a community shower room had molding off the wall and broken floor tiles at the threshold. Resident rooms were also found with sticky floors, puddles of liquid, urinals on the floor, and damaged furniture such as dresser drawers. Black grout and discoloration were observed around bathtubs and wall tiles. These findings were confirmed through interviews with nursing staff, including RNs, LPNs, and CNAs, who verified the presence of loose toilet rails, damaged fixtures, dirty conditions, and odors in the affected areas. The deficiencies affected six residents out of 117 in the facility.