Comprehensive Rehab: Patient Gets No Meds for Days - NY
Resident #7 returned to Comprehensive Rehab & Nursing Center at Williamsville on September 8th but received zero prescribed medications until September 11th, when the Medical Director discovered the oversight and alerted the Director of Nursing.
The facility's electronic medication system showed no drugs were due for the patient because no one had transferred the hospital discharge orders into their medical record. For three days, nursing staff administered nothing.
Licensed Practical Nurse #2 worked a 12-hour shift on September 9th and gave Resident #7 no medications. During a telephone interview the next day, the nurse said other staff told them the patient "had just returned from the hospital and their electronic medical record did not show any medications were due to be administered."
The nurse explained how the system works: patient names appear in the electronic medication record as either yellow when drugs are due or red when they're overdue. Resident #7's name never appeared in either color.
"They just assumed no medications were due to be administered during their shift for Resident #7," the nurse told investigators.
Nobody questioned why a nursing home patient would need zero medications.
The breakdown occurred because staff failed to follow the facility's own admission protocol. According to the Director of Nursing, either the unit manager or nursing supervisor should enter admission orders from hospital discharge summaries into the electronic medical record, then notify the on-call provider to review and sign all orders.
This never happened for Resident #7.
The nursing supervisor was responsible for completing the admission orders on September 8th, the Director of Nursing told inspectors. The orders "should have been entered into the electronic medical record by the nursing supervisor on 09/08/2025."
They weren't.
Physician Assistant #1 served as the on-call provider that Sunday but received no notification about the new admission. The physician assistant told investigators that nursing staff "would notify them when a new admission arrived at the facility to confirm and sign admission orders after they had been entered into the electronic medical record."
The call never came.
On September 9th, Physician Assistant #1 reviewed Resident #7's hospital discharge summary with Licensed Practical Nurse Unit Manager #1. But no orders had been sent electronically for confirmation and signature.
"They had just been made aware that Resident #7's admission orders had not been entered into the electronic medical record and they had not received their medications," the physician assistant said.
The Medical Director expressed the same expectation during a telephone interview. Nursing staff should notify the medical director or on-call provider when admissions arrive, then medical staff would "review and electronically sign admission orders after they had been entered by nursing staff."
Instead, the Medical Director learned about the medication gap three days later when they discovered Resident #7 had been readmitted without any admission orders in the system.
Physician Assistant #1 assessed the medical impact of the missed doses. The medications weren't "medically dangerous" to skip, but the delay "could have exacerbated their anxiety symptoms."
The physician assistant called the delay "unacceptable."
The Director of Nursing acknowledged that admission orders should be entered "on the day of admission to ensure medications were received and administered timely and avoid any delays or adverse effects."
The Medical Director agreed, stating they "would expect admission orders be entered into the electronic medical record on the same day of admission to ensure timely administration."
For Resident #7, that same-day expectation became a three-day gap. The patient went from hospital discharge on September 8th to September 11th without any prescribed medications while nursing staff assumed the computer system was correct.
Licensed Practical Nurse #2 wasn't familiar with Resident #7's routine medications and said the patient didn't request any drugs during the 12-hour shift. The nurse relied entirely on the electronic system to indicate what medications were due.
The system showed nothing because no one had entered anything.
The breakdown reveals how completely nursing staff depend on electronic medication records. When the computer showed no medications due, no nurse questioned whether a nursing home patient might actually need prescription drugs.
They simply administered nothing and moved on to the next patient.
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Last verified: June 20, 2026 · Our methodology
COMPREHENSIVE REHAB & NURSING CTR AT WILLIAMSVILLE in WILLIAMSVILLE, NY was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 11, 2025.
For three days, nursing staff administered nothing.
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