Ridgeview Health Services: Wound Care Delay Harms Resident - AL
The inspection, completed August 8, 2025, found that Ridgeview had caused actual harm to at least one resident, identified in the report as Resident 150, by failing to secure the wound vac in a timely way after admission.
A certified registered nurse practitioner told the inspector that a wound vac would be needed for the resident and that the device helps wounds heal more quickly. That clinical judgment was not in dispute. What followed it was.
The facility's central supply staff told the inspector she had called the company Ridgeview used to obtain wound vacs. That company could not give her an arrival time. She waited. Nobody looked for another option.
When the inspector asked whether the facility could have contacted a different supplier, the central supply staff member said this was the only company the facility used.
The wound vac was eventually delivered. The service ticket the central supply staff showed the inspector, dated from a prior entry in November 2022, indicated the device arrived at the facility at 9:40 in the morning, four days after Resident 150 had been admitted.
Four days is not a paperwork delay. A wound vac works by applying continuous negative pressure to a wound, drawing out fluid and promoting tissue closure. The CRNP's own words made clear it was the faster path to healing. Resident 150 spent four days without it.
The inspection classified the harm level as actual, not potential. A few residents were affected.
What the report describes is a supply chain with no redundancy and no urgency. One vendor. No backup. No documented effort to find an alternative when that vendor couldn't say when it would deliver. The central supply staff's response to the inspector carried no indication that the gap had troubled anyone at the time.
Ridgeview Health Services operates at 907 11th Street in Jasper, a small city in Walker County in northwest Alabama. The inspection was conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The facility was given the opportunity to submit a plan of correction. The report directs anyone seeking information about that plan to contact the nursing home or the state survey agency directly.
What the report does not contain is any account of what happened to Resident 150's wound during those four days, or what, if anything, changed after the inspector asked why no one had called a second supplier.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Ridgeview Health Services, Inc from 2025-08-08 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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RIDGEVIEW HEALTH SERVICES, INC in JASPER, AL was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 8, 2025.
That clinical judgment was not in dispute.
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