Unsanitary Laundry Room Conditions and Contaminated Clean Linen
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to ensure laundry was cleaned and sorted in a safe manner when surveyors observed a hole in the wall next to the washing machine and a large pool of brown, dirty standing water behind two washing machines and a clean linen cart in the laundry room. Along the baseboard of the wall behind the machines, a black substance extended about an inch up the wall and an inch onto the floor. The Housekeeping Director stated the hole in the wall had been present for some time, that maintenance had been notified of the standing water a few weeks earlier but it had not yet been repaired, and did not know what the black substance was. Later observation showed a cart of clean linen and laundry near the standing water, with a blanket from the cart partially in the water, which the Laundry Aide confirmed had touched the water. The Administrator subsequently confirmed the presence of standing water and the black substance on the wall and floor and learned from the Laundry Aide that the water on the floor had been occurring for the last three weeks when the washing machines were in use, and that the water and some of the black substance had just been cleaned up. No specific residents or their medical conditions were mentioned in the report.
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