December Featured Scenario F323 Make Sure That the Nursing Home Area is Free From Accident Hazards and Risks and Provides Supervision to Prevent Avoidable Accidents

In this scenario, the facility failed to ensure the adequate provision of safety measures to prevent elopement of a cognitively impaired and independently mobile resident. Could this happen at your facility?

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October Featured Scenario F323 Make Sure That the Nursing Home Area is Free From Accident Hazards and Risks and Provides Supervision to Prevent Avoidable Accidents

In this scenario, the facility failed to ensure that the resident environment remained free of accident hazards and residents received adequate supervision while smoking. Could this happen at your facility?

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May Featured Scenario F323 Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices

In this scenario, the facility failed to operate room air conditioners on single-outlet circuits per the manufacturer recommendations in order to prevent overloading the electrical circuit and creating a potential fire hazard. They also failed to ensure that rooms were free of electrical extension cords and that resident beds and bedding were an acceptable distance away from baseboard heating units. Could this happen at your facility?

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December Featured Scenario F323 ENTRAPMENT

In this scenario, the facility failed to ensure that the resident environment remained as free of accident hazards as possible and that each resident received adequate supervision and assistive devices to prevent accidents, including entrapment. Could this happen at your facility?

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March Featured Scenario F-323 Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices: ELOPEMENT

In this annual/extended survey and complaint investigation, the facility failed to provide adequate supervision to prevent four of six sampled residents assessed as being at risk of elopement from successfully exiting the facility without staff knowledge. This resulted in Immediate Jeopardy when four residents eloped from the facility and the likelihood of harm for the additional 65 residents identified for elopement risk. On 01/08/10 and on 01/22/10, the administrator and director of nursing (DON) were notified that Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) began on 04/18/09 when Resident eloped from the facility after he gained access to the security code by watching as it was entered into a keypad. Immediate Jeopardy remains ongoing because the facility failed to provide adequate supervision to prevent residents identified as being at high risk of elopement from leaving the facility without staff knowledge. Facility was cited at a K level.

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December Featured Scenario F-323 Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices:OXYGEN SAFETY

In this Federal Monitoring Survey, the facility failed to ensure resident safety. Based on observation, interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure the resident environment remained free of accident hazards for one (R35) of one resident who utilized oxygen while sitting under an operating hair dryer in the facility beauty shop in the sample of 12. This deficient practice resulted in an Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) that began on 2/9/10. The Administrator was notified of the IJ situation on 2/9/10. The IJ was removed and corrected on 2/9/10. The Administrator developed a policy, in-serviced all staff on the policy and implemented the policy.

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