Incident investigation·April 25, 2023

On 4/25/2023, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Murial Han conducted an unannounced case management visit to follow up on an incident that was reported by the facility. LPA met with Memory Care Director and administrator and explained the purpose of the visit. On 4/12/2023, facility report an abuse allegation that staff #1 (S1) witnessed staff #2 (S2) of blocking resident #1 (R1) from leaving one of the pods and punching R1's abdominal area with small pink dumbbells. S1 reported that this incident happened on 4/4/2023 but S1 did not reported it to the facility director until 4/12/2023. Once the facility was notified of the incident, the facility placed the alleged abuser on administrative leave pending investigation, reported the incident to R1's responsible party, CCL and the Ombudsman, started daily monitoring for R1 and provided in-services. No deficient is cited today as this incident requires further follow-up and the facility has not completed its investigation. This report is reviewed and discussed with the administrator, memory care director.