Inspectors found several infection control failures, including allowing nurses with active COVID-19 infections to report for duty and placing infected residents in shared rooms with uninfected roommates.
Regulators found infection control violations in at least three dozen Ohio nursing homes placed the health and safety of patients in “immediate jeopardy” during the COVID pandemic. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Regulators found infection control violations in at least three dozen Ohio nursing homes placed the health and safety of patients in “immediate jeopardy” during the COVID pandemic, an Ohio Capital Journal investigation has found.
Some of the allegations go beyond negligent conduct and toward deliberate acts. In two nursing homes, inspectors for CMS claimed facility staff sent fake samples into the lab or backdated test results to give the appearance of more robust responses to outbreaks at their early stages. “It’s an incredibly contagious disease and unprecedented, of course, but these examples were systemic failures on the part of the facility to protect their residents.”
“If you set the bar so low that everybody can meet it, then you haven’t differentiated anyone. You’re not paying for quality; you’re just paying everyone for checking a box,” said Jane Straker, director of research at the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University.Take the Embassy of Newark, in Licking County. On June 25, 2020, a nurse worked a shift on the nursing home’s quarantine ward.
“[Embassy of Logan’s] failure to effectively implement infection control practices likely contributed to the COVID-19 outbreak that spread throughout the facility infecting 44 residents with COVID-19 resulting in two deaths,” CMS wrote., after a 35% reduction for agreeing to waive their right to an administrative hearing.
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