Failure to Provide Privacy Curtains for Multiple Residents
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors determined that the facility failed to provide privacy curtains in certain resident rooms, resulting in residents not being afforded full visual privacy. On 2/5/26, between 9:00 AM and 10:45 AM, during a tour of the 5th floor with the LNHA, the surveyor observed that rooms 511A, 514A, 517A, and 519A, which housed a total of eight residents recently transferred from another facility, did not have privacy curtains installed. Later that day at 12:55 PM, when the surveyor asked the LNHA why those residents did not have privacy curtains, the LNHA stated that the maintenance staff had forgotten to install them. The deficiency was communicated to the Administrator at 3:28 PM during the Life Safety Code exit conference. The facility’s written Residents Rights policy, provided by the LNHA, states that employees should treat all residents with kindness and dignity and that federal and state laws guarantee residents’ rights to privacy and confidentiality, including visual privacy, as referenced in NJAC 8:39-31.2(e) and 31.8(c)5. No additional clinical details or specific medical histories of the eight affected residents were provided in the report.
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