Statesman Health & Rehab: Care Plan Failures Cited - PA
The citation, issued under a federal tag governing care planning, found that Statesman had not developed and implemented complete care plans for its residents. Those plans, when done correctly, are supposed to account for every need a resident has, assign measurable actions to address those needs, and attach timetables so that staff know what to do and when to do it. Inspectors concluded the facility had fallen short of that standard.
The deficiency was classified as isolated, meaning inspectors did not find it spread across the facility's entire population. They also noted no actual harm had occurred. But the classification they assigned, a scope and severity level known in federal inspection shorthand as a D-level finding, means they determined the lapse created potential for more than minimal harm. That distinction matters. A care plan is not paperwork for its own sake. It is the document that tells nurses, aides, and therapists what a particular resident's risks are, what interventions are in place, and what warning signs to watch for. When it is incomplete, the people providing daily care may not know what they are supposed to be watching for, or what they are supposed to do if something changes.
Statesman reported the problem corrected by September 29, 2025, twenty-four days after inspectors cited it.
What the inspection record does not contain is any detail about which residents were affected, what specific elements of their care plans were missing, or what the practical consequences of those gaps were in the weeks or months before inspectors arrived. The report identifies the category of failure. It does not describe the faces behind it.
That gap between what inspection reports disclose and what actually happened inside a facility is a persistent feature of how nursing home oversight works in this country. Federal inspectors document what they can verify during the window of a visit. They assign a code. They record a correction date. What they cannot always capture is how long a problem existed before anyone with a clipboard showed up, or what a resident experienced in the meantime.
Care planning deficiencies are among the more common findings in federal nursing home inspections, which sometimes leads people to treat them as routine. They are not. A complete care plan is supposed to be a living document, updated as a resident's condition changes, reviewed by an interdisciplinary team, and specific enough to be actionable. When inspectors find it incomplete, they are finding that somewhere in that process, a resident's needs were not fully accounted for.
Statesman Health & Rehabilitation Center received five deficiency citations during this inspection, all of them emerging from a complaint-driven review rather than a routine annual survey. Complaint inspections are typically triggered by a specific allegation, which means inspectors arrived at Statesman because someone had already raised a concern. The inspection record does not identify what that concern was. The five citations that resulted include the care planning finding, but the report does not describe the others in detail available here.
The facility's reported correction date of September 29 falls within a range that regulators consider timely for a D-level finding. Whether that correction was verified by a follow-up visit, and whether the underlying conditions that produced incomplete care plans in the first place have been addressed systemically, is not reflected in the inspection record as cited.
For the residents at Statesman whose care plans were incomplete at the time of the inspection, the record offers no resolution. There is no follow-up note on whether their plans were updated, whether anyone sat down with them or their families to review what had been missing, or whether the gaps had any effect on the care they received day to day. The correction date belongs to the facility. What it meant for the people living there is not something the inspection report was designed to answer.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Statesman Health & Rehabilitation Center from 2025-09-05 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.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
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STATESMAN HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER in LEVITTOWN, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 5, 2025.
The citation, issued under a federal tag governing care planning, found that Statesman had not developed and implemented complete care plans for its residents.
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.