Crestview Health & Rehab: Discharge Notice Failures - GA
That resident, identified in inspection records only as R7, was one of at least three people discharged from the facility at 2800 Springdale Road without the written 30-day notice they were owed. Federal inspectors documented the pattern during a complaint inspection completed August 21, 2025.
R7 had been admitted to Crestview with a list of serious physical conditions: severe protein-calorie malnutrition, foot drop in his left foot, generalized muscle weakness, polyneuropathy, alcohol abuse, and mild cognitive impairment. Despite those diagnoses, a cognitive assessment completed in late July 2025 placed his BIMS score at 15, the highest possible rating, indicating he was not cognitively impaired. He understood his situation clearly.
A social worker's progress note from July 3, 2025, recorded what R7 had said during a meeting ten days earlier. He had been renting a townhome. He was no longer a tenant. He had no income. He had no family he could live with. He told the social worker he wanted to remain in long-term care because of those circumstances.
He was discharged anyway. The inspection record does not say where he went. It says only that no written 30-day notice was given before he left.
The Medical Social Worker Manager, identified in the report by her initials MM, explained the facility's approach to discharge planning during an interview with inspectors on August 20, 2025. She said that within the first 48 hours after admission, staff asked residents whether they wanted to return home or stay in long-term care. They identified the discharge plan at that point. For residents receiving rehabilitation, once they met their therapy goals, the rehab department notified social services and they agreed on a discharge date together.
"They do not give 30-day notices to discharging residents," the inspection report states, summarizing what MM told inspectors directly.
A second social worker, whose title is not specified in the report, described the same practice when asked about another resident. She said the facility gave only verbal notice, and that it started from the day of admission. How much advance notice residents actually received before leaving, she said, "just depended on the situation."
That second conversation concerned R3, a resident whose discharge destination was his uncle's home. The social worker acknowledged knowing from the time of admission that R3 always wanted to return to the community. His location changed at times during his stay, the worker said, but he was always sent back to the community in the end. Inspectors reviewed R3's electronic medical record and found no written 30-day discharge notice anywhere in it.
The third resident, R6, arrived at Crestview with a medical history that ran to more than a dozen diagnoses: encephalitis, brain hemorrhage, brain compression, severe malnutrition, epilepsy, vascular dementia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, and anxiety. Despite that constellation of conditions, R6's cognitive assessment also returned a BIMS score of 15. Inspectors noted this specifically, a detail that matters because it undercuts any suggestion that a written notice would have been lost on someone unable to process it.
R6 was discharged on July 1, 2025. No written 30-day notice appeared anywhere in the record.
What the inspection report describes is not a documentation lapse or a paperwork error in isolated cases. The Medical Social Worker Manager told inspectors plainly that written 30-day notices are not something the facility provides. The practice, as she described it, is to establish a discharge plan on the day someone arrives and to coordinate a departure date once therapy goals are met. The written notice that gives a resident time to arrange housing, appeal a discharge decision, or simply prepare for a major transition is not part of that process at Crestview.
For someone like R7, who had already told staff he had no place to go and no resources to find one, that gap is not abstract. The 30-day written notice requirement exists precisely for situations where a discharge will displace someone, where the resident needs time and documentation to pursue alternatives, to contact advocates, or to formally object. R7 had laid out exactly that kind of situation to his social worker in late June 2025. The note recording what he said was still in his chart when inspectors arrived in August.
The deficiency was cited at a level of harm described as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting few residents. Inspectors identified it under F0628, the federal tag governing discharge and transfer requirements.
Crestview Health & Rehab Center is a 150-bed facility. The inspection was a complaint survey, meaning it was triggered by a report filed with the state, not a routine annual review.
The inspection report does not say who filed the complaint, what it alleged, or whether the three residents identified in the findings were connected to it. It does not say what happened to R7 after he left.
Full Inspection Report
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CRESTVIEW HEALTH & REHAB CTR in ATLANTA, GA was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 21, 2025.
Federal inspectors documented the pattern during a complaint inspection completed August 21, 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.