Aviata at Bradenton: Call Bell Broken for Six Weeks - FL
The call bell light above the resident's door, identified in inspection records only as Resident 2, began malfunctioning on July 18, 2025, when he complained it wasn't being answered on the evening shift. By July 21, the system had stopped functioning altogether, stuck in a loop of continuous flashing and sounding that the maintenance team couldn't shut off. A grievance filed that day was marked resolved the next, with a note that the call light was malfunctioning and that maintenance was working on a fix. The resident was given a hand bell in the meantime.
Federal inspectors arrived on August 12. The light was still going.
At 9:49 that morning, inspectors observed the red light above Resident 2's door flashing and sounding in the hallway. An hour later, it was still going. At 11:15, they walked back to the room with the Social Service Director. Resident 2 was there in his wheelchair. He told them the light had been broken for about a month and a half. Bells sat at his bedside, at his roommate's bedside, and on the back of the commode in the bathroom.
"Sometimes they do not hear it," he said. "It can take a while."
The Social Service Director told inspectors the facility had offered room changes and more frequent rounding while the light was being fixed. She said she believed maintenance had resolved it. Standing in the room with the red light flashing above the door, she said it was a shock to her.
Resident 2's family member spoke with inspectors by phone that afternoon. He said he worked around the corner from the facility and visited often, at different times of day, and had watched the light malfunction for weeks. "I could understand if it were a couple to a few days," he said, "but it had been a month. They should have fixed it." He said his relative sometimes had to go into the hallway to ring the hand bell loud enough for staff to hear. He had noticed soiled clothing. He had talked to maintenance. He had talked to the nursing home administrator.
The Maintenance Director told inspectors he had replaced the box in the wall and installed a new box in the bathroom at the time of the original grievance. The repair held for about a week before the light started malfunctioning again. He said he was waiting for a technician from an electrical company to bring spare parts, and that company typically responded within a few days to a week.
When inspectors asked whether he had any documentation showing the facility's efforts to resolve the problem, the Maintenance Director did not answer. He said he would make a call.
At a second interview that afternoon, he told inspectors there were two ways work orders reached him: an electronic system and a physical binder at the nurses' station. There was no work order in either place for Resident 2's call bell.
"I just walk by and fix it," he said.
The inspection was classified as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting few residents. The finding covered one resident out of five sampled.
What it didn't cover was the six weeks Resident 2 spent wheeling himself into the hallway, ringing a hand bell, and waiting.
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AVIATA AT BRADENTON in BRADENTON, FL was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 12, 2025.
By July 21, the system had stopped functioning altogether, stuck in a loop of continuous flashing and sounding that the maintenance team couldn't shut off.
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