Failure to Maintain Clean and Sanitary Resident Room and Shared Bathroom
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to maintain a clean, safe, and homelike environment in resident rooms and shared bathroom areas, as evidenced by unsanitary conditions in the room currently occupied by R2 and the shared toilet between R2 and R3. R2, who was admitted on an unspecified date and now resides in the room previously occupied by R1, reported that his room was not cleaned very often and that the toilet had not been cleaned for five days, with feces smears on the seat. On observation the same day, surveyors noted obvious debris on the floor and near the baseboards, numerous dirty spots on the floor, a dark grey substance clinging to a large area in the toilet bowl, and three dried smears of dark brown substance in and on the shared toilet between R2 and R3’s rooms. The Administrator acknowledged that the condition of R2’s room and the shared toilet needed cleaning and did not appear to have been cleaned recently. The Housekeeping Supervisor stated that, due to short staffing, resident rooms were only receiving very light cleaning, the shared toilet between R2 and R3’s rooms probably had not been cleaned, and that regularly scheduled deep-cleaning of resident rooms, normally done on Fridays, had not been performed consistently, despite the housekeeper job description requiring cleaning and sanitizing of fixtures and floors. R1 had voluntarily discharged home with a family member prior to these observations and no longer resided in the facility at the time of the survey, but R2 was occupying R1’s former room when the unsanitary conditions were identified.
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