New Riverdale Rehab: Medication Monitoring Failure - NY
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 39, was first prescribed Depakote Sprinkles in January 2023....
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The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 39, was first prescribed Depakote Sprinkles in January 2023....
The resident, identified in inspection records only as R24, needed nighttime rounds and evening medications, including pain medication....
Neither had been returned to its original location, despite staff having been told to put them back....
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 39, was prescribed Depakote, a drug that requires periodic monitoring of levels in the blood....
The citation, classified as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affected a small number of residents....
Immediate jeopardy is not a routine citation....
The resident was identified in inspection records only as R25....
Federal inspectors who visited the facility on April 23 and 24, 2025 walked through resident rooms and found equipment and furnishings in disrepair....
Nine months later, when federal inspectors asked to see the checklist, the Director of Nursing said she couldn't find it....
That is what federal inspectors found at Shelton Health and Rehabilitation during a March 2025 survey....
The inspection, completed March 24, 2025, found that Resident 15 had a physician's order for 360 milliliters of fluid with each meal....
Federal inspectors documented the gap during a survey completed March 25, 2025....
The resident who needed that medication, an inhaler called Breo Ellipta prescribed to treat asthma, had already gone without it for two days....
Inspectors documented two separate incidents on the morning of March 10, 2025, both involving the same resident, identified in inspection records only as R6....
The unit housed more than forty residents....
The inspection identified deficiencies in how the facility handled resident-to-resident altercations, a category of incident that can represent abuse....
The citation, recorded during a health inspection completed March 20, 2025, was issued under Pennsylvania state code governing nursing services....
Without notification, advocates had no way to do either....
Inspectors observed the preparation on March 11, 2025, at 1:54 in the afternoon....
According to her most recent assessment, dated February 23, 2025, she had no cognitive impairments....