F0584

D

Failure to Maintain Clean, Homelike Resident Bathroom and Unit Lounge

Monroeville, Pennsylvania Survey Completed on 03-03-2026

Penalty

No penalty information released

Summary

The deficiency involves the facility’s failure to maintain a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike environment in accordance with its own policies. Facility policies titled “Homelike Environment,” “Bathrooms,” and “Bedpan/Urinal, Offering/Removing,” all dated 6/20/25, require that resident areas, including bathrooms, be kept clean, sanitary, and orderly, and that bedpans be emptied into the commode, the commode flushed, the bedpan cleaned, dried, and stored properly, not left in the bathroom or on the floor. During an observation on 3/3/26 at 9:15 a.m., surveyors observed a bedpan containing feces in a clear bag on the floor of Resident 100’s bathroom. At 9:20 a.m., an RN confirmed that the bedpan should not have been left soiled and on the floor.

Additional observations on 3/3/26 at 9:30 a.m. showed that the second-floor unit lounge was not maintained in a clean, homelike condition. The lounge contained a white blanket and approximately two white towels on the floor beside a wheelchair, three or four white towels draped across the wheelchair armrests, a white blanket loosely folded on a wooden stand next to a lamp, a towel spread across an end table with another towel draped over it, a towel spread across a visitor chair seat, and a towel draped over the back of a couch. A round wooden table in the lounge had visible crumbs, and the area also contained two additional visitor chairs, a large resident scale, and a vending machine. At 9:35 a.m., an LPN confirmed that the lounge should not be dirty and that dirty linens should not be left there. At 1:00 p.m., the NHA and DON acknowledged that the facility failed to provide a clean, comfortable, homelike environment for the resident and the second-floor lounge, in violation of 28 Pa. Code 207.2(a) regarding the administrator’s responsibility.