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Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Residents Affected - Few
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited
to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Based on observations, interviews, and record review the facility failed to provide a safe, clean, homelike
environment by failing to ensure an adequate amount of clean washcloths and towels to ensure that they
available for all residents in the facility throughout the day.
The findings included:
On 1/15/24 at 10:02 a.m., Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Staff A said during the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift
there was no clean linen, washcloths or towels available on the floor. She said they currently have no
washcloths or towels available.
On 1/15/24 at 10:20 a.m., the linen closet was observed on the same hall as the staff education room.
There were no towels or washcloths available in the closet.
On 1/15/25 at 10:30 a.m., Resident #4 said she always had to wait for towels and washcloths, there were
never enough available.
On 1/15/25 at 10:50 a.m., the Director of Housekeeping said she never did inventories of the amount of
towels and washcloths available to staff. She said she was just about to deliver towels and washclothes to
the floor. While touring the laundry area the cart the Director of housekeeping was delivering to the floors
was observed to have 7 to 10 washcloths being delivered at that time. The Director of Housekeeping toured
the linen closets and the carts on both of the east and west nursing floors and verified there were no
washcloths or towels being stored in any of the linen closets or on either of the two linen carts on the east
or west floors.
On 1/15/25 at 10:56 a.m., Certified Nursing Assistant, Staff B was observed standing by the linen cart
which was observed to have no towels or washcloths available. Staff B said the last two weeks she
frequently did not have any towels or washcloths in the morning when she started her shift.
On 1/15/25 at 11:00 a.m., the Director of Housekeeping said she usually had a person come in from 2:00
p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and complete the morning linen. She said it was only her right now and she came in at
6:00 a.m. and started the morning linen and that was why it took this long to get more linen out. She said
there should be at least two towels and wash cloths available for each resident each day.
On 1/15/24 11:22 a.m., The Administrator did not know did the numbers of linen, towels and wash cloths
needed for the current census of residents. The Administrator said he thought there should be two towels
and two was cloths per resident. He stated he would get a current inventory of the amount
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Any deficiency statement ending with an asterisk (*) denotes a deficiency which the institution may be excused from correcting providing it is determined that other
safeguards provide sufficient protection to the patients. (See instructions.) Except for nursing homes, the findings stated above are disclosable 90 days following the
date of survey whether or not a plan of correction is provided. For nursing homes, the above findings and plans of correction are disclosable 14 days following the date
these documents are made available to the facility. If deficiencies are cited, an approved plan of correction is requisite to continued program participation.
LABORATORY DIRECTOR'S OR PROVIDER/SUPPLIER
REPRESENTATIVE'S SIGNATURE
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Event ID:
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Printed: 05/28/2026
Form Approved OMB
No. 0938-0391
Department of Health & Human Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
AND PLAN OF CORRECTION
(X1) PROVIDER/SUPPLIER/CLIA
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER:
(X2) MULTIPLE CONSTRUCTION
105842
B. Wing
A. Building
(X3) DATE SURVEY
COMPLETED
01/16/2025
NAME OF PROVIDER OR SUPPLIER
STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
Crescent Health and Rehabilitation Center
5401 Sawyer Rd
Sarasota, FL 34233
For information on the nursing home's plan to correct this deficiency, please contact the nursing home or the state survey agency.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
(Each deficiency must be preceded by full regulatory or LSC identifying information)
F 0584
of towels and washcloths on hand.
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
1/15/25 at 11:30 a.m., Certified Nursing Assistant, Staff C was observed filling up the linen cart in the east
wing linen closet after had housekeeping brought fresh towels and washcloths. Staff C said they have been
running short of washcloths and towels every morning for the last two weeks. She states it usually takes
until now to get them.
Residents Affected - Few
On 1/15/25 at 1:00 p.m., Resident #7 said the facility runs out towels and washcloths all the time. Resident
#7 has to continually has to ask for staff to change the linen on her bed because staff are short of linen.
On 1/15/25 at 1:35 p.m., the Administrator said he had not yet gotten a count on the towels and wash
clothes, he said he was trying to get an accurate count.
On 1/15/25 at 2:19 p.m., the Administrator provided an inventory of the towels, hand towels and
washcloths. There were only 81 towels inventoried being used for 108 residents. The Administrator said he
was going to pull more towels for the emergency supply and order more towels. The administrator verified
that the lack of linen this morning was related to both staffing and inventory of towels. The Administrator
said the Director of Housekeeping was new to the job. He said she was moved from activities to Director of
Housekeeping.
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