OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Social and Health Services has stopped admissions and revoked and summarily suspended the license of Wanjo’s Home, a privately operated adult family home, located at 4223 S 261st Street, Kent.
The home is licensed to Millicent Wambugu. The license number is 456500.
The state took the action after finding numerous violations that jeopardized the safety and well-being of residents. The violations include but are not limited to the failure to:
- Provide an environment that upheld residents' rights and quality of life, that provided necessary care and services, and that was free from abuse. The failure to provide and maintain a save environment for residents contributed to ongoing abuse and violations of residents' rights.
- Ensure two residents received care and supervision consistent with their needs and psychosocial well-being when a resident exposed himself in the presence of others, hit another resident on the head, "tackled" the resident to the floor, and then head butted a wall leaving a large hole in the wall. This failure placed the residents at risk of injury.
- Ensure one resident was free to enjoy basic right to privacy in his room by allowing daycare children to rummage through his belongings, to behave loudly and to disrupt his phone conversations with his family.
- Ensure residents' right to be free from abuse, neglect, and involuntary seclusion by leaving two residents alone on occasion and secluded in their room. The licensee's son took a game from a resident and pinched the resident. Staff yelled and got angry about a resident’s incontinence and punished daycare children in front of the residents.
- Cooperate with Department staff by interfering with data collection when two staff did not provide accurate information pertaining to an investigation. This failure resulted in difficulty with gathering correct information to assist the Department with accurate conclusions and appropriate actions.
The provider has the right to contest the stop placement, revocation, and summary suspension by requesting an administrative hearing within 28 days of state notification. Current residents have been moved to other settings.
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DSHS does not discriminate and provides equal access to its programs and services for all persons without regard to race, color, gender, religion, creed, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, veteran’s status or the presence of any physical, sensory or mental disability.