OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) has suspended and revoked the license of Bethesda House of Kindness, a privately operated adult family home in Renton.

The home is licensed and owned by Colleen and Robert Martin and is located at 18905 146th Avenue SE.

The state took the action after finding numerous violations that affected the safety and well-being of residents. The violations include but are not limited to the licensee’s failure to:

• Provide orientation, training, and supervision to ensure caregivers were trained to use mechanical lifts, pressure relief devices, prepare diabetic meals, and provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Ensure four residents, who had limited mobility, skin problems and greatly relied on staff for their care, received the services necessary to meet their physical, mental, and psychosocial needs.
• Provide sufficient staff to meet the physical and emotional needs of residents who required night-time assistance.
• Respond to residents' needs and caregiver inquiries within a reasonable time.
• Report significant changes in residents' condition to family and health care providers and to immediately report a death to family members,
• Ensure caregivers were screened for tuberculosis.
• Submit applications for caregivers' criminal background checks.
• Review and update an assessment for a resident with significant changes in care needs.
• Develop negotiated care plans for residents in the home for more than 30 days.

In addition, the licensee, a registered nurse, failed to ensure that appropriately trained staff administered medication through a stomach tube, gave false or misleading information to the department investigator, and forged documentation of a caregiver's tuberculin test.

The provider has the right to contest the summary suspension and revocation by requesting an administrative hearing within 28 days of state notification. The home is also prohibited from admitting any new residents pending any appeal.