Heritage Village Rehab: Staffing Failures Persist - NY
Federal inspectors cited Heritage Village Rehab and Skilled Nursing Inc. on August 2, 2024, for failing to maintain required nurse staffing levels, a violation the facility had already been cited for two years earlier.
The 2022 inspection had found the same problem: not enough nurses to meet residents' care needs. The facility's corrective plan at the time promised adequate staffing, timely meals, reasonable call bell wait times, and proper bathing. By the summer of 2024, residents were still complaining at council meetings that they weren't getting their showers.
The April 2024 Resident Council meeting documented staffing concerns. May's meeting documented residents complaining they weren't getting showers. The facility's response was to add new staffing agencies to its pool. By June, residents were discussing the new agency workers — but nobody wrote down what they said about them.
The ombudsman, interviewed on July 30, confirmed residents had raised staffing concerns and said the administrator was aware.
Scheduler No. 1 told inspectors the facility had five agencies under contract but was currently able to use only one. Minimum staffing numbers weren't being met on several days. The scheduler said both the director of nursing and the administrator knew.
The acting director of nursing said the same thing on August 2, and added something more specific: staff couldn't complete incontinence care. Couldn't serve meals. The administrator and corporate were both aware they weren't hitting minimum staffing numbers. The acting director also confirmed the facility had days with no registered nurse present for the full eight consecutive hours the position is required to be filled.
The administrator, also interviewed on August 2, acknowledged all of it. When notified there was no registered nurse available, they said they contacted corporate and tried to find coverage. They described it as "essentially the administrator's responsibility" to ensure safe nursing coverage. Staff had come to them directly, they said, and told them they could not get their work done.
Later that same day, with the acting director of nursing present, the administrator offered an assessment of the facility's quality improvement plan: it was effective, they said, because it "brought out awareness that more nursing staff was needed." The administrator added that meeting minimum staffing numbers was the goal, but call-offs made it "too hard to react on a short-term basis."
The corporate director of skilled nursing facilities administration told inspectors the company was aware the facility wasn't meeting minimum nurse staffing numbers. The corporate director said they felt staff could get their work done with the numbers they had. Then added: that was not their goal.
What that means in practice is in the Resident Council minutes. Residents in May 2024 weren't getting showers. In April they were raising staffing concerns. The interventions discussed in quarterly quality assurance meetings — attended by interdisciplinary team members, the medical director, and a board member — hadn't changed what residents were experiencing in their rooms and at mealtimes.
The facility had been down this road before. The 2022 citation came with a corrective action plan. Trend data on turnover was reviewed at quarterly meetings in July 2023, October 2023, February 2024, and April 2024. The awareness was there. The meetings were happening. The showers weren't.
Full Inspection Report
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HERITAGE VILLAGE REHAB AND SKILLED NURSING INC. in GERRY, NY was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 2, 2024.
Federal inspectors cited Heritage Village Rehab and Skilled Nursing Inc.
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