Resident Room Lacked Safe and Homelike Environment After Transfer
Penalty
Summary
A deficiency was identified when a resident who had recently been transferred to a new room was not provided with a safe, clean, and homelike environment. Upon observation, the resident's room contained two beds, one of which was unmade with a bare mattress and piled with a wet floor sign, wheelchair leg rests, a cushion, a bare pillow, several papers, and an unattached foot board. Four wheelchairs, which did not belong to the resident, were also present in the room. Additionally, the room was cluttered with a dresser, a desk with a laundry basket of personal items, shopping bags, a chair with a large plastic bag of linens, and three uncovered pillows. The facility Administrator confirmed that the room was not homelike, the resident's belongings had not been unpacked, and the extra equipment and items should not have been present.