Yazoo City Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

In the surveyor’s words

From the most serious findings on record at Yazoo City Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, in the surveyor’s own words.

• Immediate jeopardy, widespreadF689Aug 14, 2021

  Based on observations, record reviews, staff interviews, resident interviews, and policy and procedure reviews, the facility failed to provide supervision for Resident #1 when he lit his bed linens on fire with a cigarette lighter, threw the burning bed linen out into the hallway, and caused a facility fire on 07/26/2021. Resident #1 was one (1) of seven (7) residents reviewed for supervision to prevent the potential for accidents/hazards. The facility's failed to adequetely assess and develop a plan of care to reflect Resident #1's psychosocial well being and failed to supervise Resident #1 during his admission adjustment to the facility. […]

• Immediate jeopardy, widespreadF689Mar 11, 2021

  Based on observations, record reviews, resident interviews, staff interviews, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure resident's safety by not supervising the smoking area during resident smoke times, failing to ensuring residents were not smoking in the presence of oxygen, not administering timely smoking safety assessments, not abiding by the assessments recommendations, and administration having knowledge of residents with lighters and combustible smoking paraphernalia in their rooms and failing to secure them for 20 of 20 smokers out of a total of 133 residents, with a sample of seven (7), Residents #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7. […]

• Immediate jeopardy, widespreadF835Mar 11, 2021

  Based on record review, staff interview, and facility policy review, the facility failed to provide administrative oversight of the smoking program to ensure residents' maintained safety and the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being for 20 of 20 smokers out of 133 residents, with a sample of two (2), Residents #1 and #2. The facility's failure to provide administrative oversight and supervision of the smoking process placed residents at risk, and in a situation, which caused serious injury and death for one (1) resident, Resident #1, and was likely to cause serious injury, harm, impairment, or death for others. […]

• Immediate jeopardy, widespreadF926Mar 11, 2021

  Based on observation, record review, resident interviews, staff interviews, and facility policy review, the facility failed to adhere to the smoking policy to ensure resident's safety while smoking for 20 of 20 smokers out of a total of 133 residents, with a sample of seven (7), Residents #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7. The facility's failure to follow the smoking policy placed residents at risk, and in a situation, which caused serious injury and death for one (1) resident, Resident #1, and was likely to cause serious injury, harm, impairment, or death for others. […]

• Immediate jeopardy, patternF689May 30, 2024

  Based on staff interviews, resident interviews, observations, record reviews, and facility policy and procedure reviews, the facility failed to provide supervision to prevent the elopement of a delusional resident who voiced and was identified by the facility as being at high risk for elopement. Resident #1 was one (1) of six (6) Residents that the facility had identified as at risk for elopement. (Resident #1) The State Agency (SA) identified an Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) and Substandard Quality of Care (SQC) Past Non-Compliance (PNC) which began on [DATE], when the facility allowed Resident #1 to leave the facility through his disassembled bedroom window unsupervised and unwitnessed. Resident #1 was found several miles away by local Law Enforcement at a store. […]