Call Light Not Kept Within Reach of Resident
Penalty
Summary
The deficiency involves the facility’s failure to reasonably accommodate a resident’s needs and preferences by not ensuring the resident’s call light was within reach. During an observation of the resident’s room, the surveyor noted that the resident’s call light was hanging over the light fixture above the bed, approximately six feet from the floor, making it inaccessible to the resident. In an interview, CNA #8 confirmed that the call light was hanging from the light fixture and that the resident could not reach it. In a separate interview, the Administrator acknowledged that residents should be able to reach their call lights. These observations and interviews show that the facility did not ensure the resident’s call light was positioned so the resident could use it, resulting in a failure to provide reasonable accommodation for the resident’s need to summon assistance.
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