Berger and Benjamin, LLP

Clinic is Closed

• Clinic did not have a policy in place to address the safe storage of medications.
• Clinic failed to safely store medications. Lidocaine was stored unsecured and unattended on a shelf in an unlocked cabinet.
• Clinic failed to ensure biological monitoring (Spore Testing) was performed weekly on it’s autoclave sterilizer. This put all patients at risk as there was no quality check ensuring that instruments were sanitized properly.
  
• Clinic failed to test for spores (biological monitoring) from 3/8/17 to the time of inspection 5/12/17. Biological monitoring is required weekly.
• Failed to meet standards for infection control and sterilization, and had no policy in place to address infection control and sterilization.
• There were no cubicle curtains provided for privacy for the seven recovery chairs.
• The clean and soiled work area revealed wrapped sterile supplies stored directly on a wood shelf located directly above the autoclave. The wood shelf was covered with a torn disposable blue pad to cover shelf damage. Staff confirmed the wood shelf had not yet been replaced but covered with the disposable blue pad
  and the sterile supplies continued to be stored on this shelf.
• There was a rip in the examination table in the procedure room.
• Fetal remains and medications were being stored in the same refrigerator.