MOORHEAD (KFGO) – A Moorhead assisted living facility that was sanctioned by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) earlier this year has been fined again.
In March, Farmstead Care was fined $1,000 and given a conditional 90-day license after a resident fell multiple times and suffered severe bruising, including two brain bleeds.
The facility was given until June 9 to implement corrections.
During a follow-up visit last month – and after another complaint of maltreatment – a state inspector found some corrections were not implemented.
The new complaint was for a resident who had a sore on his buttocks that developed into a stage 3 pressure ulcer. According to the MDH, a stage 3 pressure ulcer is “full thickness skin loss that extends into the fatty tissue layer.”
According to the state inspector, a staff member found the sore, but it wasn’t assessed by the nurse for nine days, and wasn’t reported to the resident’s primary care doctor until 17 days after discovery.
After the resident’s doctor was made aware of the wound, they ordered him to be seen, first by the doctor and then by a specialist. The resident refused to go to either appointment. Farmstead Care notified the doctor four days later that the resident refused to go to the first appointment, but never notified the doctor that the resident didn’t see the specialist.
The doctor had also ordered the resident to use a pressure relieving cushion, but the inspector said Farmstead Care staff failed to make sure he used it, and didn’t let the doctor know he wouldn’t use it.
Farmstead Care was fined a total of $7,000 for the new violation and for failing to make corrections from the first investigation. The facility’s conditional license has been extended to Sept. 8. It can appeal the MDH’s findings.
Farmstead Care has not responded to a request for comment.
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