Penn Yan Manor Nursing Home has received 14 citations for violations of public health code between 2016 and 2020, according to New York State Department of Health records accessed on August 14, 2020. The Penn Yan nursing home’s citations resulted from a total of two surveys by state inspectors. The deficiencies they describe include the following:
1. The nursing home did not adequately supervise residents. Section 483.25 of the Federal Code requires nursing homes to provide residents with “adequate supervision and assistance devices to prevent accidents.” A November 2019 citation found that Penn Yan Manor Nursing Home failed to ensure such for one resident. The citation states specifically that the resident did not receive adequate supervision to prevent her from eloping from the facility undetected and falling outside, after which her care plan “was not revised to include an actual elopement.” The citation goes on to describe the nurse turning off an alarm at the nurse’s station, after which the resident exited the facility undetected, and later being found sitting on the ground by a staffer from a “neighboring facility,” who brought her back. In an interview, the nurse in question said “she thought she was resetting the alarm at the nurses’ station when she turned it off.” A plan of correction undertaken by the facility included the re-education of staff on the nurses’ station alarm system.
2. The nursing home did not adequately prevent medication errors. Section 483.45 of the Federal Code stipulates that nursing homes must ensure their medication errors rates do not meet or exceed five percent. A November 2019 citation found that Penn Yan Manor Nursing Home did not ensure such for two residents. The citation states specifically that one resident’s eye drops “were administered in both eyes instead of one eye,” and the other “had a medication ordered after meals that was given over an hour after meals.” A plan of correction undertaken by the facility included the re-education of nurses on medicine administration and the disciplining of one nurse.
3. The nursing home did not adequately prevent the use of unnecessary medications. Section 483.45 of the Federal Code stipulates that nursing homes must keep residents’ drug regimens “free from unnecessary drugs.” A June 2017 citation found that Penn Yan Manor Nursing Home failed to ensure such. The citation states specifically that the nursing home did not attempt a gradual dose reduction for two residents receiving antipsychotic medication, in contravention of facility policy. A plan of correction undertaken by the facility included the implementation of a gradual dose reduction for one of the residents.
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