Policies and Procedures:
* The Resident Abuse policy under "The Person in Charge and Administrator" under point #2 states - Adult Care Facilities and informs Licensing Coordinator. In discussion with the Manager, point #2 is a continuation of point #1 and this will be adjusted accordingly and Licensing Coordinator will be replaced with Licensing Officer. Please let the writer know when this will be completed by. As the policies and procedures are similar to the adjacent licenced home, the policies and procedures will be updated where required for both homes.
*The Reportable Incidents Policy on page 5 of 7 states aggression between individuals (i.e., persons in care) is reportable to CLBC (funder) only. Further in the same policy it makes reference to aggression between individuals being reportable to Community Care Facilities Licensing (CCFL). Please ensure the policy clearly defines which reportable definitions are reportable to which agency (i.e., CLBC and CCFL), so staff are clear as to what is reportable. Please let the writer know when this will be completed by.
* Communicable Disease Policy has a list of reportable diseases in BC from 2013. On May 10, 2022 the Licensing Officer e-mailed to the Manager the most current list of reportable diseases in BC from 2018. In addition, the policy states to send a reportable incident report to CCFL within 24 hours. Recommendation to change 24 hours to "after the outbreak has been declared over" given information will change during an outbreak such as number of persons in care affected and so on. Please let the writer know when this will be completed by.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the findings were reviewed and discussed with the Manager at the time of the inspection. This inspection report, and risk assessment was written off-site and then emailed on May 10, 2022 to the Manager for review and to finalize the report and risk assessment once they were in agreement to the wording. As a result of the pandemic, signature for the Manager is not included. If there are further questions related to this routine inspection, please contact your Licensing Officer. |