Woodland Care Center: Wound Care Failures Documented - CA
Federal inspectors documented the lapses during an April 11 survey of the facility at 7120 Corbin Ave. The treatment nurse confirmed both failures directly.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 37, had an active wound requiring daily treatment and weekly measurement. The treatment nurse told inspectors that every seven days a licensed treatment nurse is supposed to complete a skin report with measurements and a written description of the wound's condition. That report for the week of March 12, 2025, was never done. When inspectors reviewed the Treatment Administration Record covering the full month of March, they found a blank entry for March 15. The treatment nurse said a blank means the treatment wasn't performed. No notation. No explanation. Just nothing where a completed wound care entry should have been.
The treatment nurse was direct about what that means. Skipping even a single day of physician-ordered wound treatment, she told inspectors, puts the resident at risk for the wound not healing.
The Director of Nursing confirmed both failures during an interview on the afternoon of April 11. The weekly skin report for the week of March 12 was not completed, the director said, and should have been. The March 15 wound treatment did not happen. The director acknowledged that without consistent monitoring, the licensed nurses and the physician have no reliable way to track whether the wound is improving.
Woodland Care Center's own Skin Integrity Management policy, last reviewed just three months before the inspection, in January 2025, spells out the expectations clearly. Weekly skin inspections. Wound measurements upon identification and weekly thereafter. Daily monitoring of wounds and dressings. Documentation of any complications or decline. The gap between what the policy required and what the records showed was not subtle.
The inspection classified the deficiency as causing minimal harm or the potential for actual harm, with some residents affected.
What the records don't show is what happened to Resident 37's wound during the gap. Whether it was healing before March 15, whether the missed treatment set anything back, whether anyone noticed a change in the days that followed — none of that appears in the inspection findings. The weekly skin report that would have captured the wound's condition for that week was never written. The treatment that was ordered for March 15 was never given. The physician who was supposed to be monitoring the wound's progress was working, at least in part, from an incomplete picture.
The treatment nurse put it plainly to inspectors: the weekly skin report exists so that licensed nurses and the physician will know whether the wound is getting better or getting worse. Without it, they don't know.
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WOODLAND CARE CENTER in RESEDA, CA was cited for violations during a health inspection on April 11, 2025.
Federal inspectors documented the lapses during an April 11 survey of the facility at 7120 Corbin Ave.
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