Failure to Post and Retain Daily Nurse Staffing Reports
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to post the required Daily Staffing Report for 1/14/26 and failed to retain copies of prior Daily Staffing Reports, affecting all 44 residents documented on CMS Form 671. On the morning of 1/14/26 at 9:10 AM, the staffing report displayed on the bulletin board was still dated 1/13/26 and had not been updated by 12:30 PM. When surveyors requested the last two weeks of Daily Staffing Reports at 11:27 AM, the DON stated she did not have them and did not know what happened to the reports once they were taken down. The DON reported that the third-shift nurse was supposed to complete and post the Daily Staffing Report, but acknowledged this did not always occur, and that she would sometimes complete the posting at 8:00 AM if the nurse had not done so. Later, the Administrator in Training stated that the DON was supposed to keep the Daily Staffing Reports for a couple of years and that there was no reason the previous days’ sheets were not immediately available, and also stated that the Daily Staffing Report should be posted by 6:00 AM. The Administrator in Training further confirmed there was no policy in place regarding posting the Daily Staffing Report.
