Pruitt Carolina Point 2018-05-15

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Community Advisory Committee Quarterly/Annual Visitation Report County: Orange Facility Type: Family Care Home X Nursing Home Adult Care Home Combination Home Facility Name/Address: Pruitt Health-Carolina Point 5935 Mt.Sinai Durham, NC 27705 Visit Date: 05 /15 /2018 Time spent in facility: 2 hrs Arrival time: 1:00 am X pm Name of person exit interview was held with: Interview was held: X in Person Phone X Admin, LaTicia Nicole Beatty, NHA SIC (Supervisor in Charge) Director of Nursing Committee Members Present: Martha Bell, Jerry Ann Gregory, Karen Macklin Report Completed by: Karen Macklin Number of Residents who received personal visits from committee members: 14 Resident Rights Information is clearly visable. X Yes No Ombudsman Contact Info is correct and clearly posted: X Yes No The most recent survey was readily accessible: X Yes No (Required for Nursing Homes Only) Staffing information clearly posted: X Yes No Resident Profile Yes/No/NA Comments/Other Observations 1. Do the residents appear neat, clean and odor free? Yes 2. Did residents say they receive assistance with personal care activities? Ex. brushing their teeth, combing their hair, inserting dentures or cleaning their eyeglasses? Yes 3. Did you see or hear residents being encouraged to participate in their care by staff members? N/A 4. Were residents interacting with staff, other residents & visitors? Yes 5. Did staff respond to or interact with residents who had difficulty communicating or making their needs known verbally? N/A 6. Did you observe restraints in use? No 7. If so, did you ask staff about the facility’s restraint policies? N/A Resident Living Accommodations Yes/No/NA Comments/Other Observations 8. Did residents describe their living environment as homelike? Yes* 8. A resident’s family member specifically mentioned that she chose this Nursing Home because it was homelike. 9. Did you notice unpleasant odors in commonly used areas? Yes* 9. There was a strong smell of urine on one of the halls. 10. Did you see items that could cause harm or be hazardous? Yes* 10. The maintenance staff is working on replacing carpeting - there is an area of crumbling wood flooring. There were chemicals in an unlocked storage room. There was an unlocked door for the maintenance room. Both the storage and maintenance room have doors with keycodes to facilitate keeping the doors locked. 11. Did residents feel their living areas were too noisy? No 12. Does the facility accommodate smokers? Where? Outside only Inside only Both Inside/Outside Yes 13. Were residents able to reach their call bells with ease? No* 13. One resident reported that someone on the night staff took her call bell out of her reach so that she could not use it.