Failure to Maintain Safe, Clean, and Homelike Environment
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors determined that the facility failed to provide a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike environment for residents, as required by the facility’s Homelike Environment policy revised in February 2021. Observations showed multiple areas of disrepair and uncleanliness in resident rooms and common areas. In one resident room, the wall behind the bed had four strips of missing paint with four holes in each strip, along with multiple additional small holes. The ceiling near the curtain railing in the same room had two areas of missing sheetrock paper measuring approximately 1 x 2 inches and 1 x 3 inches. In another resident room, part of the bottom right corner of the windowsill, approximately 1.5 x 2.5 inches, was missing, exposing the lower part of the rebar. Additional observations in common areas included a dining room vent covered with a black substance and a large light fixture above the nurse’s station that lacked a cover and had two long, thick cobwebs hanging from the light fixture frame. During an interview, the Maintenance Supervisor stated that the walls are concrete and difficult to repair around the window when beds break pieces off, and that the resident in one of the affected rooms had just moved in and he had not yet had time to fix the wall behind the bed. He also stated that housekeeping should have cleaned the cobwebs on the light at the nurse’s station and the vent in the dining room.
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