Environmental Hazards and Poor Sanitation in Resident Rooms and Shower Areas
Penalty
Summary
Facility staff failed to maintain a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike environment in multiple resident care areas, including two resident rooms and several shower rooms. In one resident room, the door frame protective molding was torn with sharp, jagged edges, and in another room, an electrical wall outlet was broken with jagged edges. These conditions were directly observed by surveyors on multiple dates. The Maintenance Director later stated he had been unaware of the needed repairs to the room door frame molding and the broken electrical outlet. Additional environmental deficiencies were observed in several shower rooms. In the Grand Teton Hall shower room, the tile floor at the entry door had broken tile and missing grout. In the Palisades Hall shower room, the wall heater had broken and rusted areas on the front and sides, with the heater base broken, jagged, and partially disconnected from the floor; the tile floor had dark black residue in the grout and around the floor drain, and several broken floor tiles with open divots and dark black residue in the exposed areas. In the Mesa Hall shower room, the wall heater cover was removed and lying on the floor, leaving exposed wiring on the bottom side of the heater. A CNA stated the shower rooms did not look like they had been cleaned and should have been. Later observation of the Palisades Hall shower stall revealed a large amount of dark strands of hair in the drain and on the shower stall floor. The Maintenance Director also stated he was unaware that the heaters needed repair and that the shower rooms did not appear to have been cleaned.
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