Failure to Provide Timely Access to Resident Personal Funds
Penalty
20 days payment denial
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Summary
The facility failed to ensure that residents with personal fund accounts had timely access to their funds. Review of the facility's personal funds list identified 22 residents with such accounts. One resident, with multiple diagnoses including anxiety, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, Alzheimer's, heart failure, and kidney disease, reported being unable to withdraw money on weekends, having to wait until Monday. Interviews with staff confirmed that residents could only access their funds Monday through Friday, as no staff were available to handle fund withdrawals on weekends. The facility's policy stated that resident requests for access to their funds should be honored, but did not specify any restriction to weekdays.