North Auburn Care: Vision Care Neglect for Residents - WA
When inspectors visited on April 14, 2025, they found Resident 30 lying in bed with a pair of eyeglasses sitting on the overbed table nearby....
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When inspectors visited on April 14, 2025, they found Resident 30 lying in bed with a pair of eyeglasses sitting on the overbed table nearby....
The citation, recorded under F0578, covers the facility's handling of records at admission....
The inspection, completed April 24, reviewed personnel files for five staff members....
Two residents, identified in inspection records as Resident #740 and Resident #306, had each experienced significant weight loss....
That finding sits at the center of a federal inspection completed April 18, 2025, at the facility on West Seneca Turnpike....
When the wrong people are in the room, or the right people are not in the room at all, those decisions rest on an incomplete picture....
Nearly a year of hospital transfers and discharges, and the ombudsman's office had been told about exactly one of them....
Federal inspectors documented the lapse during an April 2025 survey of the facility at 5075 West Seneca Turnpike....
The facility's own Director of Nursing confirmed the problem directly....
The inspection, completed August 11, was triggered by a complaint....
The inventory sheet given to residents upon arrival included this statement: "We urge you not to keep cash/valuables or irreplaceable items at the facility....
She had a diagnosis of failure to thrive....
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 7, was transferred on February 16, 2025....
Resident 102, who is cognitively intact and lives independently with daily activities, first complained of a toothache in early 2025....
The resident, identified in inspection records as Resident 97, was receiving Merrem, an intravenous antibiotic used to treat serious bacterial infections....
The declaration came on April 11, 2025....
That designation does not mean nothing went wrong....
The drug is used to treat airway inflammation, typically in residents with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease....
Federal inspectors who visited the facility on August 12, 2025, found that promise had not been kept....
The resident never saw the money....