NHC Healthcare - Greenwood

In the surveyor’s words

From the most serious findings on record at NHC Healthcare - Greenwood, in the surveyor’s own words.

• Immediate jeopardy, isolatedF760Sep 12, 2024

  Based on review of facility policy, record review, and interview, the facility failed to ensure Resident (R)1 was free of significant medication error, when R1 received another resident's medications, for 1 of 3 residents reviewed for significant medication error. On 09/11/24 at 5:20 PM, the survey team provided the Administrator with a copy of the CMS Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) Template, informing the facility IJ existed as of 04/29/24. The IJ was related to 42 CFR 483.45 - Pharmacy Services. On 09/12/24 the facility provided an acceptable IJ Removal Plan. On 09/12/24 the survey team, validated the facility's corrective actions and determined the facility put forth due diligence in addressing the noncompliance. […]

• Immediate jeopardy, isolatedF604Feb 17, 2023

  Based on record review, interviews and the review of the facility's policy titled, Patient Care Policies on Restraints, the facility failed to protect 1 of 1 resident (R)1 from the unauthorized use of physical restraints. R1 was restrained in his wheelchair with a linen sheet by Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)1 for about 30 minutes, without a Physician's order, to prevent him falling. On 2/16/23, at 4:34 PM, the surveyor provided an Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) template to the facility's Administrator, notifying him that an IJ existed at F604 with an effective date on 2/02/23. On 2/17/23 at 1:09 PM, the facility provided an acceptable IJ Removal Plan. The immediacy of the IJ was removed as of 2/17/23. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812Jun 17, 2026

  Based on observation, interview, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure food stored in the kitchen was labeled, dated, and not expired, and failed to ensure stored bags of food items were properly sealed or closed. Additionally, the facility failed to prevent cross-contamination by using the sanitizing compartment of a sink to rinse washcloths used to clean spilled food from the kitchen floor and subsequently placing the washcloths on a clean food preparation surface. These practices had the potential to result in food-borne illness for all 139 residents who received meals from the facility kitchen. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812Mar 15, 2024

  Based on observations, interviews, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure that kitchen staff wore hair nets that covered all their hair, failed to ensure that kitchen staff wore beard guards, and failed to ensure that kitchen staff did not touch food items with their bare hands and/or preformed hand hygiene after coming in contact with non-food items. In addition, the facility failed to ensure that 1 of 3 nutritional refrigerators had food items labeled and/or dated. This has the potential to affect 131 residents who received an oral diet from the kitchen. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternF640Mar 15, 2024

  Based on record review, interview, and Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) manual review, the facility failed to follow the RAI's transmittal requirements, which indicated that within 14 days after a facility completed a resident's assessment, a facility must electronically transmit encoded, accurate, and complete Minimum Data Set (MDS) data to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) System for 4 of 4 residents (Resident (R)22, R34, R67, and R35) of 28 sampled residents. […]