The Kenney

This residential care facility experienced systemic fire safety violations across multiple inspections (January 2025-August 2025), including blocked sprinklers, uninspected fire suppression systems since 2019, missing emergency generator testing, incomplete fire drills, and deficient fire alarm maintenance. The facility demonstrated a good faith effort to correct violations, systematically addressing most cited deficiencies through multiple re-inspections, ultimately achieving full compliance by January 2026. However, the pattern of neglected life-safety systems over an extended period, particularly affecting vulnerable elderly residents, represents a severe risk that required three failed inspections before resolution.

The Kenney residential care facility received three consecutive failed fire safety inspections (January, March, and August 2025) documenting severe systemic fire protection deficiencies including blocked sprinklers, kitchen fire suppression systems uninspected since 2019 and overdue for service, missing emergency generator testing, uncompleted fire drills, and numerous documentation gaps across all critical life-safety systems. The facility corrected some individual violations between inspections but failed to address underlying compliance gaps, with the August re-inspection still finding major deficiencies including blocked sprinklers, overdue suppression systems, and incomplete emergency power testing. The pattern of repeated violations across multiple inspections demonstrates inadequate corrective action and management oversight of life-safety systems in a vulnerable population setting.

This residential care facility had severe and systemic fire safety violations across multiple critical systems. The violations included missing fire evacuation drills, uninspected sprinkler systems (main kitchen not inspected since 2019), blocked sprinklers, overdue kitchen fire suppression systems, covered smoke detectors, non-functioning fire doors, missing emergency power testing, and incomplete fire alarm documentation. The facility's response was inadequate initially, as evidenced by a follow-up inspection two months later (March 2025) showing many of the same violations persisted, though some corrections were eventually made. The pattern of deferred maintenance and incomplete safety system testing across fire protection, detection, and suppression systems created substantial life-safety risks for vulnerable residents.

The inspection identified multiple procedural compliance violations including failure to integrate hospice care plans into resident assessments for 2 residents, expired background checks and TB screenings for staff, lapsed CLIA waiver certificate, and expired food worker card. These violations represent systemic documentation and administrative oversights affecting care coordination and regulatory compliance, but did not result in immediate resident harm. The facility acknowledged all deficiencies during the exit interview and submitted a plan of correction with completion target of August 2024, and the follow-up inspection confirmed all deficiencies were corrected by August 15, 2024.

The facility failed three consecutive fire and life safety inspections over six months, with seven uncorrected violations resulting in a State Fire Marshal Letter of Non-Compliance. This represents a serious systemic failure in life-safety systems affecting all 29 residents. The facility's response was inadequate, acknowledging the issues but failing to complete necessary repairs across multiple inspection cycles, demonstrating minimal corrective action despite repeated opportunities to comply.

Staff provided care to a COVID-19 positive isolated resident without proper N95 respirator fit-testing, violating CDC, Department of Health, OSHA guidelines, and the facility's own infection control policies. This represented a serious infection control failure affecting 3 staff members with potential for disease transmission to vulnerable residents. The facility's response was documented as acknowledging the violation through the investigation process, but the report provides limited evidence of immediate corrective actions, systemic policy enforcement improvements, or staff retraining beyond the citation itself.

The facility repeatedly failed to implement required respirator mask fit-testing for staff as part of their COVID-19 respiratory protection program, placing 24 residents, staff, and visitors at risk for SARS-CoV-2 exposure. This deficiency was cited four times over nine months (April, June, October 2023, and January 2024), demonstrating a pattern of non-compliance. The facility's response was inadequate, as evidenced by the recurring violations and ultimate $1,000 civil fine, indicating minimal corrective action despite multiple citations. While the violation created potential infectious disease exposure risk, no actual harm to residents was documented in the report.

The facility had severe recurring violations involving emergency preparedness (lacking evacuation plans, food/medication provisions, and staff responsibilities documentation) and failure to implement required respiratory protection programs including mask fit testing, placing 27 residents at risk during COVID-19. These deficiencies were previously cited multiple times (June 2023, April 2023, June 2021) demonstrating a pattern of non-compliance. The facility's response was inadequate, as evidenced by the recurrence of identical violations and resulting $1,200 in civil fines, indicating failure to implement or sustain corrective actions despite prior citations.

The facility failed to implement physician-ordered weekly blood sugar testing for a diabetic resident for three months, violating the negotiated service agreement and creating risk for undetected health decline. The facility promptly acknowledged the error during the investigation, corrected the deficiency, and implemented monitoring systems to ensure compliance. A follow-up inspection on 10/04/2023 confirmed all deficiencies were corrected and the facility met all licensing requirements.

The facility had severe recurring violations affecting emergency preparedness and respiratory protection for all 27 residents. Critical deficiencies included incomplete emergency/disaster preparedness manuals lacking essential evacuation procedures, food/medication provisions, and failure to implement federally-required respirator fit testing, placing residents at risk for COVID-19 exposure. The facility's response was inadequate, as both violations were recurring and uncorrected from multiple previous citations (June 2023, April 2023, and June 2021 for emergency preparedness; June 2023 and April 2023 for respiratory protection), demonstrating a pattern of non-compliance and failure to implement lasting corrective actions despite repeated enforcement.

The facility failed to provide documentation for numerous critical life-safety systems including fire drills, sprinkler system maintenance, fire alarm inspections, emergency lighting tests, and generator servicing, representing systemic failures in fire safety compliance. While some violations were corrected during inspection (carbon monoxide alarms, emergency lighting, generator maintenance, fire door inspections), the facility's response was inadequate as it failed to maintain proper documentation and allowed multiple life-safety systems to operate without required inspections and testing. The pattern of missing documentation across all fire protection systems indicates poor safety management practices that could leave residents vulnerable in an emergency.

No inspection report content was provided for analysis - only a Washington State seal image from 1889 was submitted. Without actual inspection findings, violations, or facility response information, no assessment of regulatory compliance can be performed. To provide accurate event and response scores, a complete inspection report containing findings, citations, and corrective actions is required.

The facility had three recurring violations creating serious risk to residents: failure to update service agreements (4th recurrence), failure to obtain medications timely causing residents to miss prescribed doses (3rd recurrence), and unlicensed staff administering medications without proper delegation training (3rd recurrence). The pattern of repeated violations across multiple inspections demonstrates systemic failures in medication management and care planning. The facility's response has been inadequate, as evidenced by the same deficiencies recurring over a 21-month period despite previous citations and corrective action requirements. Civil fines totaling $1,100 were imposed due to the recurring nature and severity of violations.