Expired Medications Found in Storage Cabinets and Electronic Dispensing Machine
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Summary
Surveyors identified a deficiency related to the storage and management of medications and biologicals. During an observation of the medication room, they found two bottles of Daily Multivitamin tablets and one bottle of ibuprofen 200 mg tablets stored in the medication storage cabinets past their labeled expiration dates. Additional expired medications were found in the electronic medication dispensing machine, including one tablet of amlodipine 5 mg and two tablets of sertraline 25 mg, all with expiration dates that had already passed at the time of the survey. In an interview conducted shortly after the observation, the ADON confirmed the presence of the expired medications in both the medication storage cabinets and the electronic dispensing machine. The ADON also confirmed that staff were expected to remove expired medications from these storage areas. The presence of expired medications in both the cabinets and the dispensing machine demonstrated that this expectation was not followed, affecting the facility’s compliance with requirements for proper labeling and storage of drugs and biologicals.
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