Country Meadows of Hershey

An unattended laptop on a medication cart was left open, displaying multiple residents' private information.

A staff member used inappropriate verbal threats and physical restraint during a resident behavioral escalation, resulting in redness on the resident's wrists.

The home failed to report several incidents to the Department within 24 hours, including a resident-to-resident incident and two instances of residents being transferred to the emergency room.

The home failed to immediately report a resident-to-resident incident involving non-consensual physical touch to the local Area Agency on Aging.

A pharmacy label for a resident's medication did not include the current physician's instructions for administration.

A resident was observed grabbing another resident's clothing and body area, and refused to stop when asked.

Two large trays of meat sauce in the walk-in cooler were found opened and unsealed.

Insufficient staff trained in CPR and first aid were present during night shifts on 3/25/23 and 3/26/23.

Two loose pills were observed on the Connections medication cart.

Various medications and ointments were left unlocked and accessible in a resident's bedroom.

Exhaust fans in bathrooms for bedrooms 213 and 214 were inoperable.

The home failed to report an incident where one resident punched another resident in the upper arm to the Department within 24 hours.

An unlocked and unsupervised laptop on a medication cart in a hallway was left open, exposing personally identifiable information for 16 residents.

Directions for operating key-locking devices in the Secure Dementia Care Unit were not current following a code change.