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Person Memorial Hospital: Immediate Jeopardy - NC
Immediate jeopardy citations are relatively rare and carry significant regulatory weight....
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Immediate jeopardy citations are relatively rare and carry significant regulatory weight....
But staff at Parkwood Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center repeatedly ignored those instructions during the week of November 15-25....
The facility has not submitted a plan of correction....
Federal inspectors classified the violation as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and noted that only a few residents were affected....
Activity programs in skilled nursing facilities are not optional amenities....
Federal regulations require that every nursing home resident's medication regimen be reviewed **at least once per month** by a licensed pharmacist....
Their diagnoses included cancer, frequent pain, rheumatoid arthritis and muscle weakness....
Despite the delivery, nursing staff never retrieved the medications from the machine to give the resident their prescribed morning doses....
The citation falls under the category of Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies....
The August 28 social media post revealed that Resident #77 was being transferred from the nursing home to a local hospital....
When asked if he could remove the compression wrap himself, the resident shook his head no....
Within two weeks, the attacks began....
Infection prevention programs in nursing homes are designed to protect a particularly vulnerable population....
The gap wasn't a matter of disputed medical judgment or a complicated clinical decision....
The resident had a jejunostomy tube, which feeds directly into the small intestine through a surgical opening in the abdomen....
While inspectors did not document actual harm to residents at the time of the survey, the classification noted **potential for more than minimal harm**....
"My MDS Coordinator completed the form and likely put the wrong discharge information," the administrator said....
Emergency room physicians tried multiple times to discharge the resident back to Clover....
The food safety citation was one of **two deficiencies** identified during the inspection....
She said she checked the computer for completed orders and assumed nursing staff or the unit manager would flag anything that slipped through....