Osage Healthcare: Forgotten Skills Test for CNA - CA
The inspection, conducted on August 27, 2025, was a complaint investigation. When the inspector sat down with the Director of Staff Development at 2:30 in the afternoon to review employee files, the gap surfaced quickly. The CNA, identified in inspection records only as CNA 2, had completed her new hire competency on February 21, 2024. Under the facility's own policy, her annual competency should have been completed in February 2025. It wasn't.
The director said so plainly. She forgot.
That explanation sits at the center of what inspectors documented as a failure to ensure nursing staff have the skills needed to care for residents. The annual competency check isn't a formality. It's the mechanism the facility uses to confirm a nursing assistant still knows what she's doing, and to identify whether retraining is needed before a gap in knowledge reaches a resident. The director acknowledged as much during the inspection. If staff don't know what they are doing, she told the inspector, it will affect the quality of care residents receive.
The facility's own Staff Competency Validation policy, dated June 2024, describes the purpose of these evaluations in direct terms: to evaluate individual performance, meet regulatory standards, and address problematic issues. The stated goal is protecting the health, safety, and well-being of residents.
CNA 2 had been caring for residents at Osage Healthcare for well over a year by the time inspectors arrived. Whether her skills remained sharp, whether any gaps had developed, whether retraining was warranted — none of those questions had been answered, because nobody had asked them. The check that was supposed to prompt those questions was never scheduled.
Inspectors rated the violation at the lower end of the federal harm scale, finding minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with few residents affected. The finding covered one of four sampled employees reviewed during the investigation.
What the record shows is a supervision failure that the facility's own director could not explain away. Not a staffing shortage. Not a documentation error discovered after the fact. The person responsible for staff development at a skilled nursing facility forgot to complete a required annual review for a nursing assistant working with vulnerable residents.
Osage Healthcare & Wellness Centre is a licensed nursing facility in Inglewood, operating under CMS Facility ID 056143.
The competency that should have happened in February still had not been completed when inspectors walked in six months later.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Osage Healthcare & Wellness Centre from 2025-08-27 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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OSAGE HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS CENTRE in INGLEWOOD, CA was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 27, 2025.
The inspection, conducted on August 27, 2025, was a complaint investigation.
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.