Avalon Nursing Home INC

In the surveyor’s words

From the most serious findings on record at Avalon Nursing Home INC, in the surveyor’s own words.

• Actual harm, isolatedF692May 30, 2025

  Based on record review and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to maintain acceptable parameters of nutritional status, such as usual body weight, for 1 of 1 resident reviewed, who experienced actual weight loss, Resident ID #3. Findings are as follows: Review of a facility policy and procedure titled WEIGHT, last revised in May of 2023, states in part, .It is the policy of this home to monitor the weight of every resident on a regular basis and to carry out the appropriate interventions when necessary to assure the optimum level of health possible for the individual resident .the facility will ensure that each resident maintains acceptable parameters of body weight unless the resident's clinical condition demonstrates that this is not possible .The Director… […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812May 31, 2024

  Based on surveyor observation, record review, and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure that food is stored and distributed in accordance with professional standards for food service safety, relative to the main kitchen. Findings are as follows: 1. Record review of the Rhode Island Food Code, 2018 Edition, section 4-601.11 states in part, .(B) The FOOD-CONTACT SURFACES of cooking EQUIPMENT .shall be kept free of encrusted grease deposits and other soil accumulations. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF880May 31, 2024

  Based on surveyor observation, record review, and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to maintain an infection prevention and control program (IPCP) to help prevent the transmission of communicable diseases and infections for 2 of 3 residents reviewed for multidrug-resistant Organisms (MDRO), Resident ID #s 6 and 28. Additionally, the facility failed to conduct appropriate infection control practices relative to personal protective equipment during foley catheter (a flexible tube that is inserted through the urethra to help drain urine from the bladder) removal for 1 of 1 resident observed, Resident ID #3. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812May 10, 2023

  Based on surveyor observation, record review, and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure that food is stored, prepared, distributed, and served in accordance with professional standards for food service safety. Findings are as follows: 1)Record review of the facility policy titled, Food Storage states in part, .all foods should be covered, labeled, dated and routinely monitored to assure that food (including left overs) will be consumed by their safe use by dates, or frozen (where applicable), or discarded. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812Apr 7, 2022

  Based on surveyor observation, record review, and staff interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure that food is stored, prepared, distributed, and served in accordance with professional standards for food service safety relative to the main kitchen. Findings are as follows: 1)Record review of the facility policy titled, Food Storage states in part, .all foods should be covered, labeled and dated with product name and use by date . During the initial tour of the main kitchen on 4/3/2022 at approximately 8:35 AM, revealed the reach in freezer unit on the 1st floor kitchen area and the dry storage area with the following items unlabeled and not dated: - frozen omelets - frozen chicken patties -frozen sausage patties - mixed vegetable blend - 2 storage containers… […]