Providence Extended Care, a 90-bed long-term care and rehab facility, failed a federal inspection in December. According to the report, some patients had not left their rooms in months, and in one case, a patient was confined to their room for two years. Investigators also found nearly one-quarter of all residents had advanced bedsores — a situation generally considered an immediate health risk.
The violations may have been due to staff shortages and sometimes extreme measures taken to protect at-risk patients from the COVID-19 virus, the report said.
Providence Extended Care has since paid the fine, passed a reinspection and is now in good standing with CMS, an agency spokesperson told the Anchorage Daily News.
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