Calhoun Convalescent Center: Neglect Violation - SC
Inspectors visited the 601 Dantzler Street nursing home on March 26, 2025. What they documented in the records of one resident, identified in the report as Resident 107, was a gap that stretched back three days.
The bathing records told the clearest part of the story. For March 23, March 24, and March 25, there was no documentation at all that Resident 107 had received any type of bath. None. The first entry showing any bathing care appeared on March 26, when a partial bed bath was finally recorded at 2:55 in the afternoon.
Three days. No bath documented. No record that anyone had addressed the basic hygiene needs of a person who the same records showed was incontinent.
The incontinence documentation ran alongside those empty bathing fields like a ledger of what staff knew and didn't act on. On March 23 at 1:51 in the morning, Resident 107 was documented as incontinent of both bladder and bowel. The same notation appeared the following morning at 1:52 AM and again that evening at 10:30 PM. On March 25 at 10:25 PM, the entry repeated: incontinent. On March 26, the same documentation appeared at 1:18 AM and again at 2:55 PM.
Staff were charting the incontinence. They were recording, in the facility's own electronic system, that this resident needed assistance. The bathing records show nobody was responding to that need across three full days.
The facility's administrator and director of nursing had made the expectation plain. In an interview with inspectors on March 25 at 1:25 PM, both said that when a staff member sees a call light on, that staff member is expected to answer it and complete whatever the resident is asking for before turning the light off. The administrator went further: if the person who first answers the call light can't fulfill the request, the light stays on until whoever can help gets there.
That standard was not met for Resident 107.
On March 26, inspectors spoke with LPN5, a licensed practical nurse at the facility, at 2:16 in the afternoon. The nurse confirmed they had been informed about what happened with Resident 107 on March 25. The nurse's characterization of it was direct: staff ignoring a resident's request for personal care in a timely manner is neglect.
CNA4, the nursing assistant assigned to Resident 107 on March 25, has been placed on the facility's Do Not Return list.
The inspection report classified the violation as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm and noted that few residents were affected. But the framework of what the records showed, a resident documented as doubly incontinent, no bathing care recorded for three consecutive days, a call light that went unanswered, is not a paperwork problem.
For a person who cannot independently manage their own hygiene, incontinence that goes unaddressed is not a minor inconvenience. Skin exposed repeatedly to urine and stool breaks down. Infections develop. The discomfort is immediate and the consequences compound. The facility's own nurse used the word neglect without qualification.
What the records don't capture is how many times Resident 107 activated the call light. They don't show how long the light stayed on, or what the resident said when someone finally came. They don't document whether anyone on the night shift or the evening shift on March 23, March 24, or March 25 checked in, assessed the situation, and decided it didn't require documentation, or simply didn't check at all.
The Point of Care system recorded the incontinence. It recorded the absence of bathing. It did not record anyone noticing the gap between those two facts.
The administrator's stated policy, answer the light, complete the request, keep the light on if you can't, was the right policy. The question inspectors were answering was whether it was followed. For at least one resident, over at least three days, the records say it was not.
CNA4 is gone from the facility. The Do Not Return designation means that aide will not work at Calhoun Convalescent Center again. Whether that outcome reflects a pattern of behavior or a single sustained failure across a short stretch of days, the inspection report does not say. What it says is that a resident who needed help asked for it, and the person assigned to provide that help did not.
Resident 107's record showed one final notation worth noting. On the evening of March 26, at 7:57 PM, the bladder function entry shifted. After days of "incontinent," the record read "continent." The bowel function entry for that same timestamp still read incontinent.
It is a single data point. It may reflect a genuine change in condition that evening, or a documentation inconsistency, or something else entirely. The inspection report does not interpret it. But it sits in the record alongside three days of missed baths and a nursing assistant who is no longer permitted to return, a small detail at the end of a file that raises more questions than it answers.
Calhoun Convalescent Center's plan of correction was not included in the inspection materials reviewed. The state survey agency or the facility can be contacted directly for that information.
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Calhoun Convalescent Center in Saint Matthews, SC was cited for neglect violations during a health inspection on March 26, 2025.
Inspectors visited the 601 Dantzler Street nursing home on March 26, 2025.
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.