F 0689
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Residents Affected - Few
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to
prevent accidents.
Based on interview, observation, and record review the facility failed to ensure a resident was supervised
while smoking and that he did not have smoking material including cigarettes and lighter on his person per
his smoking assessment and care plan. This affected one resident (Resident #5) of twelve residents
identified as smoking residents residing at the facility.
Findings include:
Record review for Resident #5 revealed an admission date of 07/28/18 and diagnoses included alcohol
abuse, cannabis abuse, abuse of non-psychoactive substances, and schizophrenia.
Review of care plan dated 07/30/18 for Resident #5 revealed he had health risks related to smoking.
Interventions included staff were always to provide supervision for smoking and smoking items were to be
kept at the nursing station.
Review of quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) for Resident #5 dated 04/08/19 revealed he had cognitive
impairments as his Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) score was a ten.
Review of smoking assessment labeled, Smoking Data dated 07/09/19 for Resident #5 revealed staff were
to observe the resident while smoking as all residents would be supervised while smoking regardless of
their capabilities. He required no appliances or assistance while smoking.
Interview on 07/09/19 at 2:16 P.M. with State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) #601 revealed all residents
were to be supervised to smoke and no residents, per policy, can have cigarettes or lighters on them as
they had to be stored in the nursing station. She revealed staff had to light all cigarettes for the residents
when they are smoking. She revealed Resident #5 had to sign out in the leave of absence book and go to
the new patio the facility recently built off the path if he wanted to smoke unsupervised outside of smoking
times.
Interview on 07/09/19 at 4:10 P.M. with Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #603 revealed all residents were to
be supervised when smoking and were not to keep cigarettes or lighters on them as smoking materials
were stored at the nursing station. She revealed if Resident #5 wanted to smoke in between smoking times
he had to sign out on leave of absence and go to a patio off the path to smoke. She revealed he then was
not supervised.
Interview on 07/09/19 at 4:20 P.M. with Resident #5 revealed he goes a few times a day to the new outside
patio the facility just built to smoke which was located down the path. Resident #5 revealed he does not
need to be supervised while smoking and can go anytime throughout the day.
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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:
365638
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
365638
B. Wing
A. Building
(X3) DATE SURVEY
COMPLETED
07/11/2019
NAME OF PROVIDER OR SUPPLIER
STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
Jefferson Healthcare Center
222 E Beech St
Jefferson, OH 44047
For information on the nursing home's plan to correct this deficiency, please contact the nursing home or the state survey agency.
(X4) ID PREFIX TAG
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
(Each deficiency must be preceded by full regulatory or LSC identifying information)
F 0689
Level of Harm - Minimal harm
or potential for actual harm
Interview on 07/09/19 at 4:28 P.M. with the Maintenance Director #600 revealed he recently built the new
patio located next to the paved path going around the facility. He revealed the patio was considered off
facility property as technically the owner owns the property but was not part of the facility's property where
the new patio was built. He revealed the residents use this area for smoking, but the residents had to sign
out by leave of absence to be able to use the area unsupervised.
Residents Affected - Few
Interview on 07/09/19 at 5:55 P.M. with the Administrator and Director of Nursing revealed in the past when
the residents wanted to smoke outside of smoking times they signed out by leave of absence and went
across the street off facility property to smoke. They revealed they felt this was a safety concern and
recently the facility decided to have a cemented area with a picnic area built next to the path. They revealed
this area was off facility property. They revealed all residents including Resident #5 was to be supervised
while in the facility and no residents were to have smoking material on their person.
Observation on 07/10/19 at 8:35 A.M. of Resident #5 revealed he opened the gait to the gazebo area and
propelled in his wheelchair down the path to the newly cemented area. He then lit a cigarette that he pulled
from a cigarettes case out of his pocket. No staff were in the area while he was smoking.
Interview on 07/10/19 at 8:37 A.M. with STNA #602 verified Resident #5 was smoking unsupervised on the
patio next to the paved path by the facility. She verified he had a lighter and four remaining cigarettes in a
case on his person.
Interview on 07/10/19 at 8:39 A.M. with LPN #603 verified she was Resident #5's nurse and he did not sign
out in the leave of absence book and she verified he was to be supervised when he smokes at the facility.
She verified that residents were not to have cigarettes or lighters on them per their facility policy.
Review of undated form labeled, Release of Responsibility for Leave of Absence, for Resident #5 revealed
he did not sign out on 07/10/19 at 8:35 A.M. when he went to smoke.
Review of facility policy dated 07/17/18 labeled, Resident Smoking, revealed all residents would be
supervised while smoking, and staff would light all smoking products. The policy revealed all smoking
materials would be kept in a secured area and distributed by the facility staff and a resident would not be
permitted to carry or have in their possession smoking material including cigarettes or lighters. The policy
did not include residents signing out on leave of absence to smoke.
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