Athens Nursing And Rehabilitation Center
ATHENS NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER in ATHENS, PA — inspection on August 1, 2024.
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
Observation of Resident 3's room doorway on August 1, 2024, at 12:23 PM revealed a sign for contact precautions.
The sign included handwritten, Droplet, in black marker over the word, Contact.
The sign for contact precautions did not include reference to eye protection.
The door included a yellow PPE organizer that included gowns, gloves, surgical masks, and N95 masks.
Clinical record review for Resident 3 revealed nursing documentation dated July 29, 2024, at 2:16 PM that Resident 3 tested positive for COVID during routine testing.
Interview with Employee 3 (registered nurse) on August 1, 2024, at 12:49 PM confirmed that Residents 1 and 3 were the only residents in the facility currently isolated for COVID-19 infection.
Employee 3 confirmed that the signage on the doorways for Residents 1 and 3 did not include measures necessary for droplet precautions (eye protection); and that the facility used the sign intended for contact precautions and just overwrote the word, Contact, with, Droplet.
Observation of Resident 1's room on August 1, 2024, at 1:04 PM revealed Employee 2 (nurse aide) inside the doorway removing personal protective equipment.
Employee 2 removed a blue surgical (not N95) mask.
Interview with Employee 2 on August 1, 2024, at 1:05 PM indicated that she just finished emptying the urine storage bag for Resident 1's indwelling urinary catheter (catheter inserted through the penis and into the bladder to drain urine).
Employee 2 confirmed that she needed to be within a few feet of Resident 1 to access his urine collection bag.
Employee 2 stated that she, just grabbed the one on top (surgical mask versus N95 mask), and that the sign, doesn't say, which mask is required.
Employee 2 verified N95 masks were available in the PPE organizer.
Employee 2 questioned, Well, why do they have them (blue surgical masks) there?
The surveyor reviewed the above concerns regarding COVID isolation precautions during an interview with the Nursing Home Administrator and Employee 1 (clinical consultant) on August 1, 2024, at 1:14 PM.
483.80(a)(1)(2)(4)(e)(f) Infection Control
Previously cited deficiency 6/14/24
28 Pa.
Code 201.18(b)(3)(d)(e)(1) Management
28 Pa.
Code 211.12(d)(1)(5) Nursing services
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