Failure to Maintain Clean, Safe, and Homelike Resident Environment
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified that the facility did not maintain a clean, safe, comfortable, and homelike environment in multiple areas. One resident was observed in the main dining room seated in a wheelchair whose seat and cushion were completely covered in dried food, a sticky substance, and dark grime; this condition was confirmed by a respiratory therapist. In another resident’s room, a white pipe cover was observed lying on the floor under the room sink, and this was confirmed by an LPN. Additional environmental deficiencies were observed in a different resident’s room and in common areas. One resident’s window blinds had three leaves missing and one leaf lying on the floor under the air conditioning unit, as confirmed by an LPN. During a tour with the Administrator, the entire width of this resident’s window was noted to be draped with thick cobwebs behind the blind, which the Administrator confirmed. Two elevators located next to the dietary entrance had lower-wall plastic bumpers with sharp shards of broken plastic exposed, a condition confirmed by the maintenance employee, who stated that carts banging into the bumpers caused the damage. The Administrator confirmed that the facility failed to provide a clean, safe, comfortable, and homelike environment in these instances.
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