One of Kansas City’s lowest-rated nursing homes has cleanliness issues primarily based on current pictures taken by a former employee and a September inspection document.
Emily Brueggeman, a certified practical nurse from Lenexa, said she took pics last month of food waste, grimy towels, and used gloves lying around a room wherein scientific elements and linens are stored on the Kansas City Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare at 12942 Wornall Road.
Then she sent them to the company places of work of Centers Health Care.
“After I pronounced my worries and despatched the photographs, they terminated me,” Brueggeman said through email.
Photos supplied with the aid of Brueggeman show luggage of trash used Quik Trip cups, a small box of shaving cream and a disposable razor, and what seems to be a chunk of chocolate cake in a Styrofoam bowl sitting on the floor and counters of the supply room.
Under Missouri guidelines, nursing homes are to save linens and clinical elements “in a smooth area and protected from infection,” personnel are to eat most effectively in certain areas.
Jeffrey Jacomowitz, a spokesman for Centers Health Care, emailed a statement that did not address the sterility problems raised with the aid of Brueggeman. However, they denied that her firing had to do with her reporting them.
“It was in the great hobby of the Kansas City Center and Centers Health Care to component ways with Ms. Brueggeman because of ongoing undisclosed problems,” the assertion read.
Brueggeman said Wednesday she became “no longer allowed” to comment similarly on the problem.
Centers Health Care has recognition on the East Coast as a corporation to turn around suffering nursing homes. It made its first foray into the Midwest remaining year when it acquired the Kansas City property, one at 5211 W. 103rd St., in Overland Park, and one in Butler, Mo.
So, a long way, the facilities have continued to battle with bad rankings from the federal government’s Nursing Home Compare program. Inspections at the Overland Park facility have located unsanitary food storage and dealing with failure to develop care plans and speak them with citizens and families, save strain sores, and correctly inventory and song citizens’ assets.
The most recent published inspection at the Kansas City facility, performed in September, also determined many sanitation issues in residents’ lavatories and showers. Inspectors documented “gloves and particles strewn at the ground,” “unknown stains and discoloration” in a sink, “dinner plate size, brown liquid substance on the ground beneath the sink,” and several empty lavatory paper holders.
One resident, who turned in an interview, reportedly advised the inspectors, “Have you looked at the shower homes but? They are disgusting. I wouldn’t take a shower in there if you paid me. It seems like they have used the sink for hair color, and it has been like that per week. It is sinful. We all have told them about the circumstances of these shower houses, and nobody cares. They forget about it.”
There have also been protection problems overdue.
A damaged sprinkler head prompted a portion of the ceiling to cave in on the Kansas City facility in January — the same month that the Overland Park facility misplaced hot water for more than an afternoon.
Brueggeman, a nurse since 2001, said that shortly before she changed into fire, a pipe leak flooded elements of the Kansas City facility, leaving oxygen devices and different substances “in a pool of water everywhere in the basement” and soaking patient records.
The declaration despatched by Jacomowitz said citizens’ oxygen resources had been no longer compromised.
“Furthermore, like most business homes at some stage in you. Small leaks occur occasionally, and these leaks are repaired,” the assertion stated. “The small leak at the Kansas City Center that occurred a few weeks ago has become no extraordinary. It was found, controlled, and repaired speedily without any damage.”
