Manzano Del Sol: Accident Hazard Violations - NM, 51 chars
The citation, issued August 11, 2025, falls under a category that covers a nursing home's basic obligation to keep its physical environment free from conditions that can hurt people and to provide enough oversight to stop accidents before they happen. Inspectors determined the problem wasn't isolated to a single incident or a single area. It was a pattern.
That word matters. Under the federal rating system inspectors use, a pattern finding means the problem showed up repeatedly, across more than one resident or more than one instance. It is a different designation than a single lapse. No resident suffered documented physical harm, but inspectors concluded the potential for more than minimal harm was real.
Manzano Del Sol reported it corrected the deficiency as of October 24, 2025, nearly two and a half months after inspectors walked through the door.
The accident hazard citation was one of 15 deficiencies inspectors recorded during the same visit, a complaint inspection, meaning someone had contacted regulators with concerns about the facility before inspectors arrived. The full scope of what prompted that complaint, and what the other 14 deficiencies cover, is contained in the broader inspection record.
What the August report documents on accident hazards is a facility that, at the time of inspection, had not reliably kept its residents safe from preventable physical dangers, and had not provided the level of supervision needed to catch those dangers before someone got hurt.
The facility is operated by Purehealth, a New Mexico-based nursing home company. Manzano Del Sol sits in Albuquerque's established residential landscape, serving a population that, by the nature of long-term and skilled nursing care, includes residents with limited mobility, cognitive impairment, and conditions that make a fall or an unguarded hazard far more consequential than it might be for a younger, healthier person.
Accident hazard deficiencies of this type, when they appear as a pattern rather than an isolated event, often reflect something systemic, a gap in how staff are trained or deployed, a physical environment that hasn't been regularly audited for risk, or a supervision structure that leaves residents without adequate oversight during certain hours or in certain areas. The inspection report does not specify which of those factors applied at Manzano Del Sol. It records what inspectors found, not the facility's internal explanation for how it got there.
The correction date of October 24 gives the facility roughly ten weeks to address what inspectors identified. Whether that correction holds, and whether the other 14 deficiencies cited during the same inspection were addressed with similar timelines, will be reflected in the facility's next inspection record.
For residents living at Manzano Del Sol during the period inspectors examined, the finding describes an environment where the conditions for an accident existed and the supervision to prevent one was not consistently in place. No one was documented as having been hurt. That is not the same as saying no one was at risk.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Manzano Del Sol By Purehealth from 2025-08-11 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.
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Manzano Del Sol by Purehealth in Albuquerque, NM was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 11, 2025.
Inspectors determined the problem wasn't isolated to a single incident or a single area.
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.