New York Veterans Home Cited for Deficiencies
Violations of privacy. Failure to have infection control program in place. Failure to protect residents from resident-on-resident abuse. Failure to provide adequate supervision. Failure to label medications, failure to discard expired medications and keep medications locked up. All of these deficiencies were recently assessed to the Veterans' Home at Montrose in Montrose, New York.
In a thirty-seven page Health Department Report from August 2009, the Veterans' Home at Montrose was cited for a variety of deficiences that endangered its residents. Among the deficiencies:
- Failure to protect a resident from another resident with a documented history of aggression - A CNA wheeled the agitated resident out of a cafeteria into a common area after giving him his medication. The resident then wheeled over to another resident, grabbed his arm and pulled it back very hard, fracturing the resident's arm. A nurse interviewed about the incident said she was unable to provide one-on-one supervision because the unit was so busy.
- Seven residents were observed being treated with the door left open. Staff did not use proper hand-washing technique and did not disinfect the instruments used during the treatment for the appropriate amount of time.
- The facility failed to have a supervising physician and internal oversight.
The facility was required to pay $36,000 for its deficiencies.
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