Inspection Reports for Brickyard Healthcare – Elkhart Care Center
1001 W HIVELY AVE, IN, 46517
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The most recent inspection on April 24, 2025, found no deficiencies related to the complaints investigated. Earlier inspections showed a pattern of deficiencies primarily involving care planning, medication management, food safety, emergency preparedness, and life safety code compliance. Notable issues included a substantiated failure to timely report an abuse allegation in January 2025, food temperature problems in October 2024, and multiple care and safety deficiencies in mid-2024 and early 2023, including a resident death linked to improper diet supervision. Most complaint investigations were unsubstantiated except for a few substantiated cases with cited deficiencies, and enforcement actions such as fines or license suspensions were not listed in the available reports. The facility’s inspection history shows some improvement in recent months with no deficiencies found in the latest investigations.
Deficiencies (last 3 years)
Deficiencies are regulatory violations found during state inspections.
Deficiencies per year
Census
Based on a April 2025 inspection.
Census over time
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Failed to implement policy related to reporting an allegation of abuse for 1 of 3 residents reviewed (Resident B). | SS=D |
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Chad Knisley | Executive Director | Signed report and involved in administrative response |
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Failed to ensure food was served at palatable temperatures in 1 of 1 kitchens observed (Main Kitchen), with hot foods on the steam table below required temperatures and food served cold on trays. | SS=F |
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Cook 1 | Observed and confirmed food temperatures during meal service; indicated hot food temps should be held at or above 140 F on steam table | |
| Dietary Manager | Indicated hot foods were to be temperature checked at the steam table and educated food service staff on proper food temperature policies | |
| Administrator | Indicated hot foods should be served at appropriate temperatures and not below | |
| Director of Nursing | Provided current facility policy on maintaining sanitary tray line and food temperature monitoring | |
| Dietary Director | Responsible for educating staff, monitoring food temperatures, and presenting audit summaries to Quality Assurance committee |
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Failed to ensure the emergency preparedness communication plan includes primary and alternate means for communication with facility staff and emergency management agencies. | SS=F |
| Failed to ensure means of egress through one exit were readily accessible; exit gate was magnetically locked without posted code. | SS=E |
| Failed to ensure one door was properly marked with 'NO EXIT' signage to prevent confusion. | SS=E |
| Failed to maintain sprinkler escutcheon covering annular space around sprinkler head in front lobby. | SS=E |
| Failed to ensure fire department connection was visible and accessible; obscured by landscaping with no directional signage. | SS=E |
| Failed to provide a documented smoking policy or regulations as required by Life Safety Code. | SS=F |
| Failed to ensure staff were properly trained on oxygen transfilling procedures. | SS=F |
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Chad Knisley | Executive Director | Interviewed regarding emergency preparedness communication plan and oxygen safety training. |
| Maintenance Director | Interviewed and involved in findings related to emergency preparedness communication, egress doors, sprinkler system, fire department connection visibility, smoking regulations, and oxygen safety training. | |
| Maintenance Assistant | Interviewed and involved in findings related to emergency preparedness communication, egress doors, sprinkler system, fire department connection visibility, and smoking regulations. |
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Failed to ensure resident funds were available on the same day of the request and for the desired amount for 4 residents. | SS=E |
| Failed to ensure a surety bond sufficiently covered the total monies in the Resident Fund account affecting 56 residents. | SS=E |
| Failed to provide accurate orders for resuscitative wishes for 2 residents. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure baseline care plans were initiated or completed timely for 4 residents. | SS=E |
| Failed to ensure comprehensive person-centered care plans were created related to behaviors, urinary tract infection, constipation, impaired vision, and edema for 5 residents. | SS=E |
| Failed to provide resident-centered activities for 1 resident. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure edema was monitored for 1 resident and antibiotic medication was administered timely for 1 resident. | SS=D |
| Failed to provide a range of motion program to prevent further contractures for 1 resident. | SS=D |
| Failed to provide peripherally inserted central catheter care for 1 resident; PICC line dressing was folded exposing insertion site. | SS=D |
| Failed to provide adequate tracheostomy care and proper positioning of tracheostomy collar for 1 resident. | SS=D |
| Failed to verify controlled substance counts for 1 medication cart; missing signatures on narcotic count sheets. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure appropriate diagnosis for a resident receiving antipsychotic medication. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure food was handled appropriately, foods were sealed and dated properly, and staff did not contaminate food while serving. | SS=F |
| Failed to ensure staff changed gloves and performed hand hygiene when providing perineal care for 1 resident. | SS=D |
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Mary Oliver | VP Regulatory Compliance | Signed the report. |
| LPN 2 | Provided information on passive range of motion and tracheostomy care. | |
| CNA 16 | Observed providing perineal care without changing gloves or hand hygiene. | |
| CNA 17 | Observed placing thumb on food surface while serving. | |
| CNA 18 | Observed holding meal tray on shoulder with hair touching tray. | |
| Director of Nursing | Provided multiple interviews and policies, involved in corrective actions. | |
| Activity Director | Provided observations and education on activity care plans. | |
| Business Office Manager | Provided information on resident funds and surety bond. | |
| LPN 13 | Interviewed regarding resident fund withdrawal limits. | |
| QMA 19 | Observed oxygen saturation and care for Resident 93. |
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Generator lacked monthly load testing and weekly visual inspections as required by Life Safety Code and NFPA 110. | SS=F |
| Electrical room in maintenance shop was not sprinklered. | — |
| Exit doors #5, #7, and #8 in 200-wing were magnetically locked with incorrect posted codes, impeding egress. | SS=E |
| One exit sign in North Wing was not illuminated. | SS=E |
| Hardwired heat detector in kitchen was dangling and not properly mounted. | SS=E |
| Four resident room corridor doors failed to latch properly. | SS=E |
| Missing documentation for monthly generator load testing for 2 months and weekly inspections for 11 weeks; incomplete load bank test documentation. | SS=F |
| Generator automatic transfer switch will not transfer building load automatically; repairs pending. | SS=F |
| Two power strips were used to supply refrigerators, which is not permitted for high current draw equipment. | SS=D |
| Oxygen transfilling room door was held open during transfilling and lighting was not functioning properly. | SS=E |
| Fire drills were not conducted on each shift for 2 of 4 quarters in 2023. | SS=F |
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Chad Knisley | Executive Director | Signed report |
| Maintenance Director | Interviewed and involved in findings related to generator testing, fire drills, door locking, oxygen transfilling, and other deficiencies |
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Failed to ensure standards of care of visually observing a resident take their medications. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) forms were accurately completed. | SS=D |
| Failed to notify physician timely of missed doses of unavailable medication. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure pertinent transfer and resident clinical information was completed for transfers. | SS=D |
| Failed to provide transfer form information at time of hospitalization. | SS=D |
| Failed to provide a care plan for the use of a continuous positive airway pressure (C-Pap) device. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure showers were provided timely for a resident. | SS=D |
| Failed to provide sanitation of the continuous positive airway pressure (C-Pap) equipment. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure medications were available from the pharmacy for residents. | SS=D |
| Failed to ensure medications were kept in locked carts when unattended, medication storage areas free from loose medications, and medications dated when opened. | SS=E |
| Failed to ensure food safety and sanitation in kitchen and pantries including clean environment, proper food storage temperatures, disposal of expired foods, and labeling and dating of foods brought in by residents. | SS=E |
| Failed to ensure a safe, clean, and comfortable environment related to broken towel rack, plastic wrapped power strip cord, stained ceiling tiles, broken heater, dead bugs in light covers, and black mold on vents. | SS=D |
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Failure to provide appropriate supervision and the appropriate textured diet for 1 of 3 residents reviewed for mechanically altered diets that resulted in death. | SS=G |
| Description | Severity |
|---|---|
| Failure to ensure 2 of 3 residents received written notice of roommate change when a second resident was assigned to a room certified for one resident. | SS=D |
| Failure to monitor and follow physician orders regarding wound VAC therapy for 1 of 1 residents. | SS=D |
| Failure to provide appropriate treatment and services to prevent deterioration and infection of pressure ulcers for 1 of 1 residents. | SS=J |
| Failure to ensure thorough assessments and care for Foley catheter use resulting in sepsis and death for 1 of 3 residents. | SS=J |
| Failure to monitor a resident receiving diuretic therapy for electrolyte imbalances and adverse effects. | SS=D |
| Failure to conduct quarterly Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) meetings with required interdisciplinary participation. | SS=D |
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Kennedy | Executive Director | Signed report and plan of correction |
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