complaint·August 2, 2021

Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Wendell Smith conducted an unannounced complaint visit. LPA met with the administrator and explained the reason for this visit. Regarding the allegation above it is alleged that facility failed to report they had active covid cases. At approximately 12:30 pm LPA conducted an interview with the administrator regarding this allegation. Administrator stated that they did covid testing on 7/27/21 and on 7/30/21 late in the afternoon the results came back that one resident and one staff were positive. They then called Department of Public Health and notified them of the situation. Facility then conducted mandatory covid testing for all residents and staff from 4pm-8pm on 7/30/21. They received the results today and all were negative including the two that were initially positive. LPA received an incident report regarding the covid cases this morning at 9:28 am. Based on the information obtained through interviews and documentation received this allegation is deemed Unsubstantiated at this time. Facility did report the positive covid cases in a timely manner. Exit Interview conducted.