cms_WV: 11374
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| rowid | facility_name | facility_id | address | city | state | zip | inspection_date | deficiency_tag | scope_severity | complaint | standard | eventid | inspection_text | filedate |
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| 11374 | WAYNE NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER, LLC | 515168 | 6999 ROUTE 152 | WAYNE | WV | 25570 | 2011-01-05 | 257 | E | TDRO11 | . Based on observation, confidential family interview, confidential resident interviews, and staff interview, the facility failed to maintain an environment with temperatures that were comfortable for the residents. Residents expressed that it was often cold in the front hallway area of the facility that leads to the outside. This was an area frequented by residents and visitors, and persons had to pass through this area to access the activity room, the dining area, and the therapy room. The uncomfortably cold temperature of this area had the potential to affect more than an isolated number of residents. Facility census: 57. Findings include: a) During a tour of the facility on 01/03/11 beginning at 1:00 p.m., the temperatures in different areas of the facility were measures, and all areas were found to be above 72 degrees Fahrenheit (F) except the front lobby. The maintenance supervisor (Employee #3) was asked to place a thermometer in this area, so the temperature could be monitored in the hall. Using the facility's own thermometer, the temperature in that hallway at that time was 68 degrees F. Observation also found the heater on the hall in that area was not turned on at that time. - A confidential family interview, conducted on the afternoon of 01/03/11, revealed the facility's temperatures fluctuated a lot, and it was often very cold in this hallway. She stated her mother, who often sites in the hallway, gets very cold, and staff does put a blanket on her, but she would feel the end of her mother's nose and find it to be "cold as ice". - Confidential interviews with alert and oriented residents identified six (6) residents who felt the ambient temperature of this area was uncomfortably cold. One (1) resident stated, "When it is real cold outside, you can not hardly stand to come through that area, but you have to go through it to get to the dining room. Then you are cold when you get in the dining room, because you came through that cold air." Another resident commented that it was very cold in the area when it is real cold outside. One resident said it was cold there and she just tried to hurry through that area and hoped that nothing slowed her down when it is cold. Another resident reported her room was nice and warm, and sometimes she doesn't want to come up front, because she has to go through that cold area. "Sometimes you have a hard time getting through if it is congested, and there are a lot of people in that area. She stated, "Sometimes there's a lot of action going on in that area, and you can't get through very fast." She did not like to linger in that area because of the cold temperature. - Observations of the front lobby area, from 01/03/11 to 01/05/11, found the door was opened very frequently for visitors, the ambulance, and for some deliveries. On the days of the observations and interviews, the exterior temperature was 41 degrees F, while the interior temperature of this area only got up to 68 degrees F. - During an observation on 01/04/11 at 10:00 a.m., Resident #14 was found sitting in front hallway. This resident was dependent on the staff for mobility, and staff had parked her in the front hallway in her wheelchair. At 10:01 a.m., the temperature of the resident's room, where she had been before being brought to the front hallway, was found to be 80 degrees F. Resident #14 was transported from a room measuring 80 degrees to the front hallway measuring 68 degree F. Resident #14 was observed sitting in this hallway until 11:15 a.m. She did have a blanket laying over her, but the air was still cool to breathe and cool on her face after having previously been in a really warm room. This resident was confused and did not communicate; she could not have told staff that she was cold or ask anyone to move her to another area. - During an interview with Employee #3 on 01/04/11, he verified this area was only warmed up to 68 degrees F with the extra wall heater running. He also verified that, when it was really cold outside, this area was difficult to keep warm, and this was where the residents liked to sit. He verified that, with only one (1) single door in this area leading to the outside, when it was outside outside of the facility, this hallway would get cold every time the door was opened. . | 2014-04-01 |