Summers Healthcare Center: 27 Deficiencies Found - WV
Federal health inspectors visited Summers Healthcare Center in August and left with a citation list that stretched to 27 findings. One of those findings, documented under a category covering resident assessment and care planning, described the facility's failure to coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program, and to refer residents for services they needed.
The citation was classified as isolated, meaning inspectors identified it in a limited number of cases rather than as a pattern running through the facility. No actual harm was documented. But inspectors determined there was potential for more than minimal harm, which is the threshold that triggers a formal deficiency citation.
That distinction, no actual harm versus potential for harm, can sound like a technicality. It is not. The pre-admission screening and resident review program exists specifically to identify residents with mental illness or intellectual disabilities and ensure they are evaluated for the services they need, whether those services can be provided inside the nursing home or require a referral elsewhere. When that coordination breaks down, residents who need specialized care can go without it, sometimes for extended periods, without anyone inside the facility recognizing the gap.
The inspection was conducted on August 20, 2025. It was classified as a complaint inspection, meaning it was triggered at least in part by a complaint filed with regulators rather than initiated solely as a routine survey cycle.
Summers Healthcare Center reported a correction date of September 21, 2025, roughly a month after the inspection concluded.
Twenty-seven deficiencies across a single inspection covers significant ground. The assessment and referral finding was one piece of a much larger picture inspectors documented that day. The full scope of what they found across all 27 citations is not captured in a single regulatory tag, and the assessment failure does not exist in isolation from whatever else was going wrong inside the building at the time inspectors arrived.
Hinton sits in Summers County, in the southern part of West Virginia, a region where access to specialized medical and psychiatric services is limited by geography in ways that make proper referral coordination more consequential, not less. When a nursing home in a rural area fails to connect a resident with services they need, the distance to those services does not shrink on its own.
The facility's correction date of September 21 means regulators accepted the facility's representation that the problem had been addressed within about 30 days. Whether the underlying conditions that produced 27 deficiencies in one inspection have been resolved is a question the correction date alone cannot answer.
What the inspection record shows is a facility that, on the day inspectors walked in, was falling short in enough distinct areas to generate nearly three dozen separate findings, including one that touched the most basic obligation a nursing home carries toward residents who arrived needing more than the facility alone could provide: the obligation to know that, and to do something about it.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Summers Healthcare Center from 2025-08-20 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.
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SUMMERS HEALTHCARE CENTER in HINTON, WV was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 20, 2025.
Federal health inspectors visited Summers Healthcare Center in August and left with a citation list that stretched to 27 findings.
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.