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32 | The investigation revealed the following:
Allegation: Staff are not responding to residents call button.
It is being reported that it takes staff up to 2 hours to respond to the resident’s call button. Per LPA Felisa Shirley’s observation, the resident call system is stationed in 2 locations within the facility, one place is in the med tech room and the second is in the 3rd floor dining room. LPA Shirley interviewed S1 on 3/17/26, S1 stated that when call button alerts are received, receiving staff uses the walkie to dispatch the caregiver assigned for residents in that specific area on the walkie and the responding caregiver is immediately notified of the resident’s location. LPA Shirley toured the facility and pushed the call button in R1’s assigned room at 10:01am and noted that it took receiving staff 3 minutes to respond and arrived at R1’s room at 10:04am. Per interview with S1, if there is a shortage of staff when an alert comes in from a resident, she sometimes identify who the resident is on the alert panel and responds to the alert herself to help out. Per interviews with S1-S6, there is no tracking system in place to verify response times for call button alerts from residents.
LPA interviewed staff 1 – staff 6 (S-1 – S-6). Of those interviewed 6 out of 6 denied the allegation. LPA interviewed resident 1 – resident 8 (R1 – R8). Of those who interviewed 2 out of 8 denied the allegation. Two residents confirmed the allegation, and 4 residents neither denied nor confirmed the allegation.
Based on information gathered, LPA did not find sufficient evidence to support the allegation “Staff are not responding to residents call button,” therefore, the allegation is unsubstantiated.
No deficiencies were cited for these allegations.
An exit interview was conducted and a copy of this report was provided to, Azucena Reyes, Administrator.
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