Expired Medication Found on Medication Cart During Audit
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified a deficiency in the facility’s medication storage and labeling practices when auditing a medication cart. During an audit of the 200 Hall medication cart conducted with an RN present, surveyors observed one bottle of Gas Relief on the cart with an expiration date of 7/25 printed on the bottle. The RN acknowledged that the bottle of Gas Relief should have been discarded and had not been removed from the cart. Later, the DON also stated that expired medications should have been removed from the medication cart and confirmed that this had not occurred. The report states that, based on observations, record review, and staff interviews, the facility failed to ensure medications were properly stored and not expired, and that this failure was true for the entire facility. The presence of the expired Gas Relief on the medication cart demonstrated noncompliance with requirements that drugs and biologicals be labeled in accordance with accepted professional principles and properly stored.
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