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PeggySue2020 Asked August 2022

Are there policies on residents having firearms at your facility?

A resident where SO works went into the parking garage and shot himself to death yesterday.


 


His biggest fear isn’t that he’s going to have to clean up dried tissue, blood etc. with the drivable concrete scrubber.


 


It’s that he gets met at the door by someone who thinks he’s in Nam waving a gun in his face. He already texted his manager to get guidance. I guess all the managers have to meet to decide what the guidance is.


 


For ppl with los in facilities, are there rules about guns, or taking them away?

JudyBlueEyes Sep 2022
My father's independent living facility has a no guns policy.

PeggySue2020 Aug 2022
The client lived in the assisted living wing. By the time they figured out they were missing the man, he’d gone down to his storage unit and grabbed his .357. That’s where it happened, and the whole area is still cordoned off either by them or the cops.

There is a no gun policy. But like someone said, if you bring it in a box who will know?

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Grandma1954 Aug 2022
I would think that a facility that has Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care would have a "No weapons" policy.
But this would probably be an individual facility policy or if it corporate run a corporation would have a policy on weapons. (and I think at this time most facilities have corporations backing them.)

I think if I were an employee, or a resident for that matter and was met at the door by a gun waving resident I would make a fast 911 call. And if the facility has a Color Code for Armed person that that code would be broadcast over a PA system.
If I were a resident and I found out that a neighbor to my Right, Left, Above or Below me had a gun I would be upset and request a move to another "safer" apartment.

cwillie Aug 2022
Even if there is a no guns policy in place if somebody moves in with a weapon and they keep it tucked away in a suitcase or a box who's going to know? What a frightening possibility 😰😱

JoAnn29 Aug 2022
I forget, ur husband just started working in a NH or AL facility?

Really doesn't matter, huh. No, no one entering any type of facility should be allowed to have a weapon of any kind, IMO.

What I worry about with your husband is there is a certain criteria that has to be met when cleaning up bodily fluids. Every year because I worked at a Visiting Nurse facility, I had to do a blood born pathogens class. Your husband should make sure he wears gloves and disposes of them in a red waste basket that says Hazardous on it. A mask too. There are cleaners that kill the germs without using bleach. They are used in ambulances. There should be procedures in place. If Osha comes in, they better have the info available they require.

P.S. there is a certain way to take off surgical gloves so you don't touch the. For xtra safety wash hands very well.

https://www.fairview.org/Patient-Education/Articles/English/s/t/a/f/f/Standard_Precautions_Removing_Gloves_Safely_82546
PeggySue2020 Aug 2022
Hubs works at a ccrc where residents buy in with condos. They offer al services to established residents as the years and decades progress in their condos. Out of 207 residences, only 20 are dedicated to al, meaning most residents will not willingly move to a room with basically just a bed and tv when they are paying the hoa on a spacious condo they bought.

The osha classification is that there’s hazards of blood borne pathogens. I am fairly certain they provide adequate hazmat. It’s more the issue of how to balance individual owners—because they are—2a rights vs you know waving a gun at him
sp19690 Aug 2022
Seems like the policy should be no firearms allowed in these facilities. I dont understand a place like that allowing any of the residents to have guns.

BarbBrooklyn Aug 2022
Oy gevalt. I'm so sorry, Peggy.

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