Inspection Results
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Facility failed to meet the following Requirement(s):Corrected DateLevel of HarmResidents Affected
Only activities necessary to the administration of the facility shall be contained in any building used as a long-term care facility except as follows: (A) Related activities may be conducted in buildings subject to prior written approval of these activities by the Department of Health and Senior Services (hereinafter-the department). Examples of these activities are Home Health Agencies, physician ' s office, pharmacy, ambulance service, child day care and food service for the elderly in the community; II/III 4/9/2024   
Injections shall be administered only by a physician or licensed nurse, except that insulin injections may also be administered by a certified medication technician or level I medication aide who has successfully completed the state-approved course for insulin administration, taught by a department-approved instructor. Anyone trained prior to December 31, 1990, who completed the state-approved insulin administration course taught by an approved instructor shall be considered qualified to administer insulin in an assisted living facility. A resident who requires insulin, may administer his or her own insulin if approved in writing by the resident ' s physician and trained to do so by a licensed nurse or physician. The facility shall monitor the resident ' s condition and ability to continue self-administration. I/II 4/9/2024   
The administrator shall develop and implement a safe and effective system of medication control and use, which assures that all residents ' medications are administered by personnel at least eighteen (18) years of age, in accordance with physicians ' instructions using acceptable nursing techniques. The facility shall employ a licensed nurse eight (8) hours per week for every thirty (30) residents to monitor each resident ' s condition and medication. Administration of medication shall mean delivering to a resident his or her prescription medication either in the original pharmacy container, or for internal medication, removing an individual dose from the pharmacy container and placing it in a small cup container or liquid medium for the resident to remove from the container and self-administer. External prescription medication may be applied by facility personnel if the resident is unable to do so and the resident ' s physician so authorizes. All individuals who administer medication shall be trained in medication administration and, if not a physician or a licensed nurse, shall be a certified medication technician or level I medication aide. I/II 4/9/2024   
At all times, including while being stored, prepared, displayed, served or transported to or from the facility, food shall be protected from potential contamination, including dust, insects, rodents, unclean equipment and utensils, unnecessary handling, coughs and sneezes, flooding, drainage and overhead leakage or overhead drippage from condensation. The temperature of potentially hazardous food shall be forty-five degrees Fahrenheit (45��F) or below or one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit (140��F) or above at all times, except as otherwise provided in this section. In the event of a fire, flood, power outage or similar event that might result in the contamination of food, or that might prevent potentially hazardous food from being held at required temperatures, the person in charge shall immediately contact the Department of Health and Senior Services (the department). Upon receiving notice of this occurrence, the department shall take whatever action that it deems necessary to protect the residents. II/III 4/9/2024   
When hot water is used for sanitizing, as allowed by section (72) of this rule, the following facilities shall be provided and used: an integral heating device or fixture installed in, on or under the sanitizing compartment of the sink capable of maintaining the water at a temperature of at least one hundred seventy degrees Fahrenheit (170��F); and a numerically scaled indicating thermometer, accurate to plus or minus three degrees Fahrenheit (��3��F), convenient to the sink for frequent checks of water temperature; and dish baskets of such size and design to permit complete immersion of the tableware, kitchenware and equipment in the hot water. II/III 4/9/2024