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Type B
06/30/2022
Section Cited
CCR
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7 | Personnel Requirements - General
Facility personnel shall at all times be sufficient in numbers, and competent to provide the services necessary to meet resident needs.
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7 | The Licensee agrees to submit monthly reports for 3 months beginning 7/1/22 detailing progress on recruiting and hiring of new staff as well a report on number of staff that are no longer employed with the memory care unit, or have taken leave. The Licensee also agrees to submit in the report every incident of a call out or no show for a shift by agency or by staff. The Licensee can add any relevant information to this report as is deemed useful or necessary. The report shall be emailed to maja.jensen@dss.ca.gov.
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14 | Based on interviews with staff, the memory care director, the executive director, care staff, med techs, and family members of residents there is a consensus that the facility was short staffed for periods of time. This poses a potential health and safety risk to residents and care. | 8
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Type B
06/28/2022
Section Cited
CCR
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7 | Managed Incontinence
(b) In addition to Section 87611, General Requirements for Allowable Health Conditions, the licensee shall be responsible for the following:
(1) Ensuring that residents who can benefit from scheduled toileting are assisted or reminded to go to the bathroom at regular intervals rather than being diapered.
(2) Ensuring that incontinent residents are checked during those periods of time when they are known to be incontinent, including during the night.
(3) Ensuring that incontinent residents are kept clean and dry and that the facility remains free of odors from incontinence.
(4) Ensuring that bowel and/or bladder programs are designed by an appropriately skilled professional with training and experience in care of elderly persons with bowel and/or bladder dysfunction and development of retraining programs for restoration of normal patterns of continence.
(5) Ensuring that the appropriately skilled professional developing the bowel and/or bladder program provide training to facility staff responsible for implementation of the program.
(6) Ensuring that re-assessment of the resident's condition and the evaluation of the effectiveness of the bowel and/or bladder program be performed by an appropriately skilled professional.
(7) Ensuring that the condition of the skin exposed to urine and stool is evaluated regularly to ensure that skin breakdown is not occurring.
(8) Privacy shall be afforded when care is provided.
(9) Ensuring that fluids are not withheld to control incontinence.
(10) Ensuring that an incontinent resident is not catheterized to control incontinence for the convenience of the licensee.
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7 | Licensee agrees to request a corporate regional specialist to come and develop a plan on how to remain in compliance with regulations. Confirmation of the regional specialist’s deployment will be emailed to Community Care Licensing (CCL) at maja.jensen@dss.ca.gov by 6/28/22. The plan developed by the regional specialist to remain in compliance will be emailed to CCL by 7/28/22. |
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14 | Based on interviews with staff, residents and family members of residents in care, residents are waiting excessive amounts of time for incontinence care in the evenings which is resulting in skin rashes and other health conditions. | 8
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Deficiency Type
POC Due Date /
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Type A
07/28/2022
Section Cited
HSC
1569.69(a)(1) | 1
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7 | Employees assisting residents with self-administration of medication; training requirements
(a) Each residential care facility for the elderly licensed under this chapter shall ensure that each employee of the facility who assists residents with the self-administration of medications meets the following training requirements:
(1) In facilities licensed to provide care for 16 or more persons, the employee shall complete 16 hours of initial training. This training shall consist of eight hours of hands-on shadowing training, which shall be completed prior to assisting with the self-administration of medications, and eight hours of other training or instruction, as described in subdivision (f), which shall be completed within the first two weeks of employment.
This requirement was not met as evidenced by:
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7 | The Licensee has conducted a job fair on 6/14/22 and hired 9 new employees. Licensee agrees to notify CCLD by email to maja.jensen@dss.ca.gov how many of the 9 staff members resulted in new permanent employees. Licensee agrees to continue recruiting through job fairs and any other means necessary and will submit training verification records indicating compliance with the regulation for all memory care unit med tech staff by 7/28/22. |
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14 | Based on interviews with two staff members, staff was asked to conduct medication administration activities that they were not qualified or trained to do. This poses a health and safety risk to residents in care. | 8
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