Magnolia Place

The facility failed to ensure that Staff B was competency validated for Licensed Health Professional Support (LHPS) personal care tasks before performing them. While the staff member had a validation checklist from a sister facility, there was no updated competency validation on file for the current facility. The supervisor confirmed the staff member had been providing hands-on assistance with transfers and ambulation without the required local validation.

The facility failed to ensure that Staff B was competency validated via return demonstration for personal care tasks before performing them at the facility. Although the staff member had valid competency documentation from a sister facility, the facility did not have a completed validation checklist for the current facility on record.

The facility is in violation of requirements regarding the training and competency of medication aides. The regulation prohibits allowing staff to perform unsupervised medication aide duties without specific prior experience or successful completion of required training.