Sunnyview Nursing Home & Apartments
SUNNYVIEW NURSING HOME & APARTMENTS in TRENTON, MO — inspection on September 19, 2025.
Found 1 citation. Severity: Standard violations.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct within required timeframes. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns and are subject to follow-up verification.
Inspection Findings
Based on record review and interview the facility failed to ensure staff followed facility's policy to timely update one Resident's care plan (Resident #15) out of the 14 sampled residents after the resident eloped from the facility.
The facility census was 56.
Review of the facilities Emergency Procedure- Missing Resident policy, not dated, showed:-Nursing staff is tasked with updating the care plan after a resident who eloped is found;-The DON is to ensure the care plan is updated. 1.Review of Resident #15's care plan, updated on 08/03/2025, showed:-The resident was at an increased risk for wandering related to repeated attempts to exit the facility;-The resident had impaired decision making related to dementia;-The resident had a diagnosis of depression;-The resident's care plan had not been updated after the resident eloped on 09/13/2025.
Review of nursing progress notes, dated 9/19/25 at 8:00 P.M showed the resident eloped out the door on the 100 hall without his/her walker.
The resident was then later found behind the facility 25 minutes later without his/her wander guard bracelet ( A device that alarms when getting to close to an exit door. ) on.
During an interview on 9/19/2025 at 9:04 A.M., RN A said that he/she was there the night that resident had eloped and had seen him that night on 9/13/25 on the 100 hall around 8:00 P.M. with his/her walker, later that night he/she went to give him his/her medications and could not find him/her. RN A said there was an order on the resident's MAR (Medication Administration Record) to check the wonder guard shiftily and during report he/she was notified that the resident had a wander guard, but he/she had not had a chance to check it that night.
During an interview on 09/19/2025 at 10:04 A.M. the DON (Director of Nursing) said no new measures to prevent the resident from eloping again had been put into place on the care plan after the resident eloped on 09/13/2025.
The residents care plan should have been updated regarding the resident's new exit seeking behaviors.
During an interview on 09/19/2025 at 10:41 A.M. the MDS (Minimum Data Set) Coordinator said:-The care plan was not updated after the resident eloped on 09/13/2025 and should have been;-The charge nurse on duty during the event was responsible for updating the care plan when an elopement occurs.
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