Inspection Reports for Murano Senior Living

The Department of Social and Health Services conducted a complaint investigation visit at Murano Senior Living to assess compliance with background check requirements for staff.

The facility failed to ensure that one staff member completed the required Washington state name and date of birth background check upon hire or renewed every two years, placing 78 residents at risk. This deficiency was recurring, previously cited in April 2024 and October 2022.

Complaint investigation visit conducted on December 2, 2024. The deficiency was substantiated and resulted in a civil fine.

The inspection was conducted due to a complaint investigation concerning a staff member working as an activity worker with vulnerable adults in the memory care unit, who was investigated for substantiated financial exploitation of her son.

The investigation found that the facility failed to have documentation of a background check upon hire or renewal for the named staff member, placing 78 residents at risk from exposure to a staff person whose criminal history is unknown. This deficiency was previously cited and remains uncorrected.

The complaint was substantiated regarding financial exploitation concerns involving a staff member. The facility failed to maintain required background check documentation for the staff member, which was cited as a deficiency.

The inspection was conducted as an unannounced on-site complaint investigation following an allegation of abuse by a resident against a caregiver.

The facility conducted an investigation ruling out abuse and neglect but failed to implement their policy by not removing the accused caregiver from resident care during the investigation, placing residents at risk.

The named resident alleged that a caregiver raped her with a newspaper. The facility failed to remove the accused caregiver from resident care pending investigation, violating their policy for protecting residents during abuse investigations. The investigation ruled out abuse and neglect but identified failed provider practice and citations were written.

The Department of Social and Health Services conducted an investigation at Murano Senior Living on December 23, 2022, resulting in the imposition of civil fines for regulatory violations.

The facility was cited for multiple uncorrected deficiencies including failure to ensure a resident had a safety assessment for a medical device, failure to initiate tuberculosis testing for staff within three days of employment, and failure to properly maintain trash collection areas, placing residents at risk of injury, communicable disease, and infestation.

The Office of the State Fire Marshal conducted a fire safety inspection at the Murano Senior Living facility to assess compliance with fire resistance rated construction, door operation, fire protection systems records, and NFPA 80 fire/smoke damper inspection and testing requirements.

The inspection found multiple violations including missing fire rated intumescent putty in electrical rooms, fire doors failing to close and latch on several floors, failure to maintain records for fire systems such as backflow test reports and quarterly sprinkler testing, and missing reports for smoke damper testing after the first year of operation.

R_Murano_Senior_Living_Complaint_12-23-22_-JC.pdf

R_Murano_Senior_Living_FIRE_10-10-2023_-_CS.pdf

R_Murano_Senior_Living_Inspection_04-24-2024_-SW.pdf