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The facility has failed to provide a required emergency stop button for each of the generators in an approved location. This could allow for a problem to exist at the generator and staff must go inside the room housing the generator to shut off the generator or inside the weatherproof cabinet to shut off the generator. Failure to have an emergency shut off switch could potentially create a greater hazard during a power outage and thus expose patients, visitors, and staff to a power outage without generator power coverage.

The findings include, but are not limited to:

Observations made during this POST inspection to verify compliance with the K144 Generators citation revealed that the facility has not completed this project by the completion date that they provided of March 06, 2015.

The above was discussed and acknowledged by the Maintenance Director over the phone today.