State suspends Troy group home’s license

State officials have suspended services at an Oakland County group home for adults and plan to revoke its license.

Michigan’s Department of Human Services Bureau of Children and Adult Licensing issued the suspension order against Pioneer Rehabilitation Specialists Inc. in Troy earlier this week, officials said Friday.

The move comes after the agency investigated the home, on Tutbury Lane near North Adams and East Square Lake roads, and found violations of the state’s rules regarding the care of residents at adult care facilities.

Bob Wheaton, a spokesman for the department’s licensing bureau, said the agency can’t divulge specifics about the allegations.

However, he said the violations didn’t result in death or serious injury.

After an on-site inspection in February of this year, the bureau of children and adult licensing cited the group home for 10 violations. Among them:

■Staff failed to take universal precautions when passing out residents’ medications.

■Staff failed to dispense one patient’s medication as prescribed.

■Bleach and other cleaning supplies were stored under a kitchen sink and were unsecured from the residents.

■Two residents of the opposite sex, identified as brother and sister, shared a room.

■The door to the home’s fuse box was broken.

Imran Khan, who is listed as the licensee for Pioneer Rehabilitation Specialists, was not available for comment Friday.

Under the order, Pioneer Rehabilitation is banned from operating the group home and from accepting new residents. It also had to inform all guardians of the adults in its care that its license was suspended and it could no longer provide services at the facility as of 6 p.m. Wednesday.

State officials said Pioneer has had its license since August 2011 and was authorized to care for six adults. At the time of its license suspension, five adults were being cared for at the facility, Wheaton said.

He also said the department’s Adult Protective Services division helped place those adults in other licensed residential facilities.

In the meantime, the agency will forward the case to the state’s Administrative Hearing System. Pioneer has the right to appeal the suspension.

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