Island Health
1952 Bay Street Victoria, B.C. V8R 1J8 | Visit Official Website (opens in a new tab)

Complaint Investigation

Inspection Information

Facility Type

Residential Care - 400

Received Date

18-Aug-2022

Subject

["Health and Safety","Neglect","Service Delivery Problem"]

Contraventions: A summary of the new contraventions found during the inspections are listed below.

Code

Category/Description

3060 - RCR 54(1) 
 

A licensee must establish a program to instruct, if necessary, and assist persons in care in maintaining health and hygiene.

Observation: Through the investigation process, Licensing determined that staff had not assisted a person in care with hand hygiene.

Corrective action: Ensure that staff assist persons in care with maintaining health and hygiene. Action/s Required by Licensee: Licensee to submit a corrective action plan to Licensing specific to the contravention. Action/s Required by Licensing: On December 14, 2022, Licensee submitted a corrective action plan to Licensing. The corrective action plan included: Registered Care Aides (RCAs) and spa staff were to have been provided education related to hand and nail hygiene, this education would be provided yearly to staff, individual nail brushes were provided for persons in care and a system was implemented to ensure persons in care's hand hygiene was completed by staff. The corrective action plan was reviewed and accepted by Licensing.