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32 | As part of the reporting requirement, the facility reported it to R1's physician , Long Term Care Ombudsman and R1's responsible party; subsequently, R1 was seen by R1's physician on the following day. The facility also attempted to collect more details from staff, but none of them had knowledge of such incident as it was witnessed.
As prevention, facility offered R1 to move to another room on a different floor but R1 did not accept the offer. However, the facility was able to move R2 after a discussion with the responsible party. Since the room transfer, there was no further incidences.
Based on the documents provided by the facility, LPA observed this incident was reported on 11/20/2020 (incident happened on 11/19/2020) via LIC 624 (Unusual Incident/Injury Report) indicating that it was reported to R1's responsible party, Long Term Care Ombudsman and R1 was seen by On-Lok Clinic. In addition, a SOC 341 ( Report of Suspected Dependent Adult/Elder Abuse) was also completed.
Based on interviews, and record reviews during the course of the investigation, this allegation is deemed to be unsubstantiated.
Regarding to allegation of- facility staff are not meeting toileting needs of resident and facility lacks adequate staffing to meet resident's care needs, there is not additional information forthcoming from the reporting party. However, during the initial reporting, the reporting party stated that facility staff failed to change R1's soiled diaper and asked R1 to poop in R1's diaper.
As part of the investigation, LPA interviewed R1 who stated that it took the staff hours to change R1's soiled diaper.
The administrator and the resident care coordinator denied the above allegation and stated that every morning before night shift staff ends their shift at 6:30am, they would clean, change, provide a bed bath and get R1 into a wheelchair to start R1's day. In addition, they have not heard any complaints from R1, the responsible party and the physician regarding this allegation. Furthermore, the administrator stated that the facility recently added additional staff to anticipate new residents from Laguna Honda.
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