Heritage Manor of Slidell

In the surveyor’s words

From the most serious findings on record at Heritage Manor of Slidell, in the surveyor’s own words.

• Actual harm, isolatedF689Apr 11, 2024

  Based on record reviews and interviews, the facility failed to ensure the residents remained free of accident hazards for each resident who required transfer by facility's hoyer lift for 1 (#3) of 6 (#1, #3, #R1, #R2, #R3 and #R7) residents reviewed. The facility failed to secure resident's safety during transfer. This deficient practice resulted in a harm on 04/01/2024 when staff transferred Resident #3 from a Geri Chair to her bed without using a mechanical lift. Resulting in Resident #3 sustaining commuted, displaced, angulated fractures distal shafts of both the tibia and fibula and portable mildly displaced intra-articular fracture of the distal aspect of the proximal phalanx of the great toe. […]

• Actual harm, isolatedF600Jun 4, 2021

  Based on interviews, observations, and record reviews, the facility failed to ensure a resident was free from neglect for 1 (#1) of 5 sampled residents (#1, #2, #3, #4, and #5) who required 2 person transfer with a mechanical lift. This deficient practice resulted in an actual harm for Resident #1, a [CONDITION(S)], on 05/11/2021 at 12:32 p.m., when S4CNA transferred the resident with the mechanical lift, from the shower gurney to the resident's bed. Resident #1 slipped out of the lift's sling and landed on the floor. Resident #1 was transferred to the hospital on 5/11/2021 and diagnosed with a non-displaced fracture to the right medial tibial plateau. The resident was placed in a right leg immobilizer and admitted for pain control and orthopedic evaluation. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternF688Aug 20, 2025

  Based on observations, record review and interviews, the facility failed to ensure residents with limited range of motion received appropriate treatment and services to increase range of motion and/or to prevent further decrease in range of motion by failing to provide restorative therapy for 3 (#9, #71, and #88) of 21 residents reviewed in the final sample.Resident #9 Review of Resident #9's Clinical Record revealed he was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses, which included Muscular Dystrophy, Right Hand Contracture, Left Hand Contracture, Right Foot Contracture, and Left Foot Contracture. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternF812Aug 7, 2024

  Based on observation, interviews, and record review, the facility failed to store food in accordance with professional standards for food service safety. This had the potential to affect 93 residents who were served from the kitchen. Findings: Review of the facility's policy titled Food Storage Labeling dated 05/2018 revealed in part, the following: Policy: The facility will ensure the safety and quality of food by following good storage and labeling procedures. Procedure: 1. Labeling a. All temperature controlled foods will be labeled. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternF880Aug 7, 2024

  Based on observations, interviews and record review, the facility failed to maintain an infection prevention and control program designed to provide a safe and sanitary environment to help prevent the development and transmission of infection for 4 (#2, #28, #43, #149) of 20 resident's reviewed in the final sample. The facility failed to ensure: 1. Staff wore proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while in the room of Resident's #2 and #149, who were on Droplet Precautions; 2. Staff wore proper PPE while providing care to Resident #43, who was on Enhanced Barrier Precautions; 3. Resident #43's urinary catheter bag remained off the floor; and 4. Staff performed proper infection control practices while performing wound care for Resident #28. Findings: 1. […]