Residential Care Citation Update

The month of April was the ISDH’s most active month in 2015 with deficiency and offense citation of Residential Care Facilities.  The agency issued 51 citations in April, 47 at the deficiency level and 4 at the offense level.  The breadth of citations was interesting to see, and you can see too in the below linked summary.  The month saw citations of tags that don’t get cited very often, such as Tag0006 (Scope of Care), Tag0029 (Resident’s Rights), Tag0155 (Sanitation & Safety), Tag0302 (Pharmacy), and Tag0406 (Infection Control).  On the other hand, frequently cited tags didn’t get a break in April as 9 facilities were issued Tag0273 concerning maintenance of food preparation and service areas and 3 facilities were issued Tag0241 for failing to have medications administered by licensed nursing or a QMA.  One trend that has been noticed in 2015 is that Tag0304 concerning medication cabinets/rooms being locked at all times and storage of Schedule II drugs has been cited 3 times in 2015.  Tag0304 was not cited at all in 2014 and only 4 times in 2013 at the deficiency level.

For a summary of the April Residential Care citations, click here.