York Manor Nursing Home: Assessment Data Failures - OK
Inspectors cited the facility under a category covering resident assessment and care planning, finding that York Manor had failed to encode resident assessment data and transmit it to the state within seven days of completing those assessments. The deficiency, logged on September 15, 2025, was assigned a scope and severity level of D, meaning inspectors characterized it as isolated, with no actual harm documented but with potential for more than minimal harm.
That phrase, "potential for more than minimal harm," is regulatory language that carries real weight. Resident assessments are the foundation of care planning. They capture a person's physical condition, cognitive status, functional abilities, and medical needs. When that data doesn't move through the system on time, the picture of who a resident is and what they need can go incomplete or invisible to the people and agencies responsible for overseeing their care.
York Manor reported a correction date of November 17, 2025, roughly two months after inspectors identified the problem.
The assessment transmission failure was one piece of a much larger picture. Eighteen deficiencies in a single complaint inspection is a substantial number, and the assessment finding sat alongside 17 others that inspectors documented during the same visit. The full scope of those additional citations is not detailed here, but their volume signals that September's inspection at York Manor was not a routine visit with minor findings.
Nursing home assessments, known in federal records as Minimum Data Set assessments, feed into a national database that Medicare and state agencies use to track resident health trends, flag deteriorating conditions, and calculate quality ratings. A facility that consistently fails to transmit that data on time creates gaps, gaps in the public record, gaps in oversight, and gaps in the chain of information that follows a resident if they transfer to a hospital or another facility.
The September inspection was triggered by a complaint, not a scheduled review. Complaint inspections are initiated when someone, a resident, a family member, a staff member, or a member of the public, contacts state or federal authorities with a concern serious enough to warrant a visit. The nature of the complaint that prompted this inspection is not reflected in the available record.
York Manor has not responded publicly to the findings.
The two-month gap between the September citation and the November correction date is not unusual in nursing home enforcement. Facilities are typically given time to identify the root cause of a deficiency, retrain staff, update systems, and document that the problem has been resolved. Whether the correction holds, and whether the 17 other deficiencies from the same inspection have been similarly addressed, is a question that future inspections will answer.
What the record shows is a facility that, as of mid-September, was not getting basic administrative functions right. Transmitting assessment data is not a clinical judgment call. It does not require a physician's order or a specialist's review. It is a clerical and administrative obligation, one that exists precisely because the state and federal government need timely, accurate information about the people living inside these walls.
When that information arrives late, or not at all, the residents it describes are, in a practical sense, harder to see.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for York Manor Nursing Home from 2025-09-15 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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YORK MANOR NURSING HOME in MUSKOGEE, OK was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 15, 2025.
That phrase, "potential for more than minimal harm," is regulatory language that carries real weight.
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.