Harmon House Health & Rehab: Records Violation - PA]
The inspection resulted in a citation under F842, the federal tag that covers clinical records. Inspectors also cited the facility under two Pennsylvania state codes, one governing how clinical records must be maintained and one governing nursing services.
Clinical records are not paperwork for their own sake. They are the mechanism by which one nurse knows what the last nurse did, by which a physician knows what a patient was given overnight, by which a family has any hope of reconstructing what happened to their relative. When those records fail, care fails with them.
The nursing services citation covered both the general standard for nursing care and the specific requirement that nurses meet the needs of each resident. Those two provisions, read together, describe the core promise of a nursing home: that trained staff will show up, assess what each person needs, and provide it.
The inspection report does not describe what inspectors found in the rooms, what residents said, or what staff did or failed to do. It records the citations and the regulatory codes they correspond to. The underlying facts that drove those citations, the specific residents affected, the specific failures documented, are not contained in the materials available.
What is known is that someone filed a complaint. Inspectors came. They found enough to cite the facility on records and on nursing care. That is the public record.
Harmon House Health & Rehab Center is a nursing and rehabilitation facility in Mount Pleasant, a small city in Westmoreland County in southwestern Pennsylvania. The July inspection was a complaint survey, meaning it was not a routine check but a response to a specific concern someone raised about care at the facility.
The person who filed that complaint, and whatever prompted them to file it, does not appear in the inspection record either.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Harmon House Health & Rehab Center from 2024-07-24 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
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HARMON HOUSE HEALTH & REHAB CENTER in MOUNT PLEASANT, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on July 24, 2024.
The inspection resulted in a citation under F842, the federal tag that covers clinical records.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.