All American Restorative Care of Washington is facing over $48,000 fines and a freeze on accepting new patients. Owners Jerry and Shari Rhodes, along with their son Kip, who operates the IT Department held a press conference yesterday regarding the facility’s improvements, the imposed fines and possible future. Kip Rhodes stated, that their goal has been to improve the health care system. Owner Jerry Rhodes said that an inspection must be passed to keep the facility open or the facility will be closed and patients and staff will have to find a new place to go.

He added that there are some parties interested in buying the business.

The facility houses 48 residents. Fines have been imposed, according to the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, because it did not have a system in place to inform staff of residents’ status regarding do not resuscitate orders and CPR policies. The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid also cited All American Restorative Care of Washington, the report stated that the facility needed to, as of October 10th, finish inservicing all employees regarding basic life support, full code and do not resuscitate policy, CPR policy, advanced directives, Hospice program policy and documentation of assessment guidelines, as well as monitor staff so polices are followed and monitor the labeling of charts to show status and effectiveness.

Owner Jerry Rhodes, who is running for governor and also operates a care facility in Muscatine, stated that he runs a family owned business that cares about the individuals and he believes the business is over regulated. Rhodes did state that he is appealing the citations to keep the facility open.