Residential Care Citation Update

The ISDH issued 12 offense tags and 71 deficiency tags totaling 83 citations to Residential Care Facilities in the month of July. This is the highest month of citations issued, it’s even higher than when ISDH was only issuing Residential Tags due to the government shutting down in October 2013. Ten citations were issued to tag 0273 concerning maintenance of food preparation and service areas in accordance with state and local sanitation standards. This marks the second time in 2015 that this Tag received ten citations, creating a total of 50 citations issued this year. Tag 0241 (Offense tag) concerning the administration of medications by licensed nurses or QMAs, was the second highest citation issued in July with nine citations. It has been cited every month with a total of 26 citations for 2015. Tag 0217 concerning resident evaluation and services plan was cited eight times. This citation has been issued every month in the year 2015 for a total of 23 citations. Tag 0148, Tag 0154, and Tag 0272 were issued five citations making it the highest month for those Tags to be cited in 2015.

There were three Tags that were issued for the first time in 2015: Tag 0058 for Patients’ Rights when a facility fails to grant immediate access for authorized public personnel or an individual’s physician; Tag 0149 for Sanitation & Safety Standards for failure to comply with 410 IAC 7-24 requiring a pest control program; Tag 0193 for Physical Plan Standards in failure to have proper laundry services. There was also a new Tag issued that had not been reported before, Tag 0179. This involves failure for an adequate air conditioning system in compliance with 675 IAC (Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission).

Click here to review a summary of July’s Residential Care Facility citations.