North Ridge Health and Rehab: Activities Failures After Stroke - MN
After the stroke, staff at North Ridge Health and Rehab laid her back in bed after meals.
The reason, a nursing assistant explained to inspectors, was practical: if Resident 42 was left sitting up in her wheelchair, she would try to go outside, and she was no longer safe to do that alone. A mechanical lift was now required to move her at all. So after she ate, back to bed.
Nobody at the facility ever completed a comprehensive reassessment of what she might need instead.
The activities aide, identified in the report as AA-A, told inspectors on March 6 that the last comprehensive activities assessment for Resident 42 was completed the previous November, before the hospitalization. AA-A acknowledged that Resident 42's entire routine had changed since the stroke. She could no longer communicate or move around the facility on her own. The aide said she had completed an isolation assessment but not a comprehensive one, which would have examined what activities the resident might actually be interested in or able to do given her new limitations.
As for one-on-one visits, AA-A said she had not initiated any. She checked in with Resident 42 once a week to make sure her television was working.
The nurse manager told inspectors that staff would sometimes offer to bring Resident 42 to a group activity, but that she was never really into group activities. The nurse manager noted that Resident 42 liked to watch television and could hold her own remote.
That framing frustrated what the family had told inspectors just hours earlier. Resident 42's family member, identified as FM-E, said the resident had never been a group activity person, but that she had built her social life around going outside to smoke with other residents. That was how she connected with people. When she first returned from the hospital, a family friend had stayed with her around the clock. That person had since gone home, and nobody was available to visit frequently anymore.
The family member told inspectors that Resident 42 had voiced concerns that she was just lying in bed with nobody there to help her.
A licensed practical nurse confirmed to inspectors that Resident 42 spent far more time in her room since the hospitalization and had undergone a complete change since her stroke. The nursing assistant who had known her before said the same: before, she transferred independently, went outside constantly, smoked with the other residents. That was her life in the facility.
The director of nursing, interviewed on March 7, said she would have expected a comprehensive activities assessment to be completed after the stroke. "I think we could have done better by her," the director told inspectors. She noted that if staff had initiated a significant change assessment, it would have automatically triggered a comprehensive activities review. That assessment was never started.
The inspection report classified the violation at the level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting a small number of residents. No immediate jeopardy was cited.
What the report documents, in the words of the people who cared for her and the person who directed their work, is a woman whose world shrank to the dimensions of a bed and a television after a stroke, inside a building full of people, and nobody formally asked what she might still want to do with her days. The director of nursing said staff could have done better. The activities aide said she checked the TV. Resident 42 told her family she was lying there with nobody to help her.
Those three statements are all from the same building, the same period of time, and describe the same person.
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NORTH RIDGE HEALTH AND REHAB in NEW HOPE, MN was cited for violations during a health inspection on March 7, 2025.
After the stroke, staff at North Ridge Health and Rehab laid her back in bed after meals.
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