Statesman Health & Rehabilitation: Medication Delays - PA
The meeting drew ten residents. Three of them, identified in inspection records as R72, R100, and R92, raised the issue directly. It was not a rumor passed through hallways. It was residents, in a formal setting, telling staff that something had gone wrong with their medications.
The complaint inspection that followed, completed September 5, 2025, confirmed the problem extended beyond those three.
Inspectors reviewed the medication administration records for two additional residents, R5 and R114. The Director of Nursing, identified in the report as Employee E2, confirmed during an interview that same morning that both records had not been documented in a timely manner. She acknowledged that the facility's practice allows medications to be given within a one-hour window before or after the scheduled time, a two-hour range in total. Whatever happened with R5 and R114 fell outside even that window.
One entry in the records was particularly blunt about what had occurred. A medication administered on August 29, 2025 and documented on August 30 at 12:47 a.m. carried a notation explaining the delay. The reason given: "charted late." A second late entry on August 30 was documented that same night at 10:49 p.m., with the same explanation offered.
"Charted late" is not a clinical explanation. It does not say whether the medication was actually given on time and recorded late, or whether the recording was late because the administration was late. It does not describe what medication it was, whether it was a blood pressure drug or a pain reliever or something else entirely, or what, if anything, happened to the resident in the interval. The record closes the question by refusing to answer it.
The inspection cited deficiencies under Pennsylvania nursing services regulations, with the Director of Nursing's own interview serving as the confirmation. There was no dispute about the facts. The records were not timely. The medications, for at least some residents, were not on schedule.
The harm level assigned to the deficiency was minimal, meaning inspectors did not find evidence that residents suffered serious injury as a direct result. But "minimal harm" in regulatory language describes what inspectors could document, not necessarily what residents experienced. R72, R100, and R92 experienced something worth raising in a public meeting. They did raise it. That part is in the record.
What is also in the record is the gap between when a problem surfaces and when it gets addressed. The resident council meeting was September 4. The inspection was September 5. The late medication entries being examined dated back to August 29 and August 30. The residents who spoke up at that meeting had been waiting, by that point, for nearly a week.
Statesman Health & Rehabilitation Center is a nursing and rehabilitation facility in Levittown, in Bucks County. The inspection that produced this report was a complaint inspection, meaning it was triggered by a specific concern brought to regulators, not a routine survey cycle. Someone, at some point before September 5, had contacted authorities.
The Director of Nursing did not dispute the findings. She confirmed them. That matters, because it means the facility's own leadership acknowledged, on the record, that medication documentation had failed and that at least two residents' records did not meet the standard the facility itself described.
For the residents who spoke at that council meeting, the acknowledgment came after the fact. They had already gone to bed on nights when the medications they were supposed to receive either arrived late or, in some cases, did not arrive at all. They had already lived through whatever that meant for them, whether it was pain that lingered longer than it should have, a blood pressure that climbed without correction, or simply the unsettled feeling of waiting for something that did not come.
The record does not say what happened next for R72, R100, or R92. It ends where inspections tend to end: with the deficiency noted, the regulation cited, and the residents still in their rooms.
Full Inspection Report
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STATESMAN HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER in LEVITTOWN, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 5, 2025.
The meeting drew ten 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.