By Healthcare Facilities Today

The Quincy, Mass., building department hasn’t inspected the Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation nursing home in more than six years, according to an article on the Burlington Union website. Quincy’s three other nursing homes were all inspected last summer.

The situation was discovered when the husband of a former worker complained to the city that the Kindred facility had a faulty fire-alarm system and other building deficiencies. The home was last inspected by the city’s building department on June 15, 2007.

Massachusetts, which licenses nursing homes annually, conducts unannounced health and fire-safety inspections. The state renewed the Quincy Kindred’s license last March, according to the article.

Kindred’s inspection certificate with Quincy expired in June 2009, when the city performed inspections every two years. Today, city buildings with high occupancies are supposed to be inspected every year.

Kindred’s expired certificate went unnoticed for so long because the city’s building department is still transitioning to a digital record-keeping system that alerts officials when certificates have expired, the article said.

Read the article.