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Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to follow a physician treatment order for one
resident (R1) reviewed for wound treatment orders in a sample of three.
Residents Affected - Few
Findings Include:
The facility's Pressure Injury and Skin Condition Assessment Policy, dated 1/17/18, documents: Purpose:
To establish guidelines for assessing, monitoring and documenting the presence of skin breakdown,
pressure injuries, and other ulcers and assuring interventions are implemented. 18. Physician ordered
treatments shall be initialed by the staff on the electronic Treatment Administration Record after each
administration.
R1's diagnoses include: Personal history of other malignant neoplasm of skin, varicose veins of right and
left lower extremities, non-pressure ulcer of right and left lower extremities, excoriation (skin picking)
disorder, end stage renal disease.
R1's Treatment Administration Record/TAR dated 10/2023 documents: Treatment to bilateral lower
extremities/BLE: Cleanse wounds to BLE with wound cleanser, pat dry, apply calcium alginate to open
areas, cover with unna boots and wrap with kerlix and ace wraps. Every day shift every Wednesday,
Saturday for wound care per (V6 Wound Care Physician) related to Encounter for change or removal of
nonsurgical wound dressing.
(Internet definition for unna boot, dated 2/2024 documents: An Unna boot is a compression dressing made
by wrapping layers of gauze around your leg and foot. It is often used to protect an ulcer or open wound.
The compression of the dressing helps improve blood flow in your lower leg.)
Review of R1's 10/2023 TAR indicated there were no staff signage for treatment care for R1 on Wednesday
10/18/23 or on Saturday 10/21/23 to indicate wound care had been done for R1's left foot wound.
On 2/16/24 at 12:25pm, V3 Assistant Director of Nursing/ADON/Infection Control Preventionist stated that
in October 2023, R1 had scheduled wound treatments; (noted treatments scheduled for Wednesdays and
Saturdays); stated that R1 had a wound on his left foot between great toe and second toe; and stated that
R1 liked to pick at his lower extremities.
On 2/28/24 at 11:10am, V4 Minimum Data Set/MDS/Care Plan Coordinator, confirmed that R1's Treatment
Administration Record/TAR for October 2023 indicated no treatment sign offs by staff for 10/18/23 or
10/21/23 prior to 10/25/23 when maggots were noted in R1's left foot wound and stated I notified the
appropriate staff and documented about (R1's) infection and about the foul odor on 10/18/23. Not
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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
TITLE
(X6) DATE
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Event ID:
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Printed: 05/15/2026
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
145486
B. Wing
A. Building
(X3) DATE SURVEY
COMPLETED
02/28/2024
NAME OF PROVIDER OR SUPPLIER
STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
Goldwater Care Spring Valley
1300 North Greenwood Street
Spring Valley, IL 61362
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
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sure why I did not sign the TAR and forgot to mark the treatment off as being done for 10/18; but there was
a change in (R1's) wound and we got a new order.
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Residents Affected - Few
FORM CMS-2567 (02/99)
Previous Versions Obsolete
Event ID:
Facility ID:
145486
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