Failure to Maintain Safe, Clean, and Well-Maintained Environment
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified a failure by facility staff to maintain a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike environment for multiple residents. During observations on various halls and in multiple resident rooms, surveyors found missing or broken electrical outlet covers in several rooms, including outlets near resident beds and an air conditioning unit. Additional observations revealed damaged drywall in several rooms, including a large crack extending from floor to ceiling, chipped paint, scuff marks around the bottoms of walls, closets, and near bathroom doors, and a visible hole in a wall near a bed. In one resident room, trash was observed overflowing from the trash bin onto the floor. Surveyors also observed that handrails throughout several halls were scuffed, chipped, and had missing paint in many places. During an interview, an LPN confirmed that the handrails needed to be touched up due to peeling and chipping paint. In a separate interview, the DON stated that the facility should be safe, clean, neat, and orderly at all times. These observations and interviews formed the basis of the deficiency related to the facility’s failure to maintain the building in a clean, safe, and comfortable manner for residents.
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