Bishop Drumm Retirement Center: Repeat Violations - IA
That acknowledgment came during a September 17 complaint inspection, the latest in a string of nine surveys dating to June 2023 that have cited the 114-resident facility for the same rotating set of failures: pressure sores, infection control, nursing staffing, and services that don't meet professional standards.
The pattern is documented on the state's own inspection website. Infection control violations appeared in June 2023, October 2023, February 2024, September 2024, and again in July 2025. Staffing deficiencies showed up in June 2023, October 2023, April 2024, June 2024, and July 2025. Pressure sore citations landed in February 2024, June 2024, and August 2024. Each time, the facility submitted a plan to fix the problem. Each time, inspectors returned and found it wasn't fixed.
The facility's own quality assurance plan, dated February 26, 2025, committed to identifying root causes, developing corrective actions at the systems level, and conducting ongoing measurement to confirm those actions were actually working.
When the surveyor asked the administrator what the facility had done, he described a wound nurse hire, a new infection tracking system, call light audits, scheduling changes, and monthly consultations with an outside quality of care coalition. He said he felt call lights had improved.
He said the concerns from the current survey would be reviewed and discussed through the quality assurance process.
That process has been running, by the facility's own account, for at least two and a half years. The deficiencies it was designed to prevent kept appearing anyway, in survey after survey, for residents living with wounds that weren't healing and infections that kept spreading through a building that didn't have enough nurses to stop them.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Bishop Drumm Retirement Center from 2025-09-17 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston, IA was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 17, 2025.
The pattern is documented on the state's own inspection website.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.