Broad Mountain Health and Rehab: Immediate Jeopardy Found - PA
The inspection was triggered by a complaint, not a routine survey. Someone had raised an alarm about what was happening inside the 500 West Laurel Street facility, and what inspectors found when they arrived confirmed the concern rose to the highest level of harm.
Immediate jeopardy is not a designation inspectors use lightly. It requires a finding that the facility's failures placed residents in immediate risk of serious harm. At Broad Mountain, the finding fell under F0689, the federal tag that covers accident hazards and supervision, and inspectors cited the facility under Pennsylvania's own nursing home regulations alongside it, specifically the sections governing resident care policies and the standard of nursing services.
The inspection record lists the number of residents affected as "few." That word carries specific meaning in the federal inspection system. It does not mean one person had a bad day. It means the conditions inspectors documented touched the lives of at least a small number of people living inside that building, people who were already there because they needed help, because they could not fully care for themselves.
What the inspection record does not contain, in the portion available, is the detailed narrative of exactly what inspectors observed, which rooms they entered, which residents they spoke with, or which staff members they interviewed. The statement of deficiencies form, as produced here, cuts off before the body of findings. What remains is the framework: the tag, the harm level, the regulatory citations, and the declaration itself.
That declaration is not a minor administrative notation. A finding of immediate jeopardy sets off a mandatory chain of events. The facility must remove the jeopardy, demonstrate to inspectors that the conditions causing it no longer exist, and submit a plan of correction. Until inspectors are satisfied the immediate jeopardy has been abated, the facility operates under the most intense level of federal scrutiny, and the financial consequences, including potential termination from Medicare and Medicaid, remain on the table.
Broad Mountain Health and Rehabilitation Center is a licensed skilled nursing facility in Schuylkill County, in a part of Pennsylvania where the coal industry once defined daily life and where the population that remains skews older. The people in facilities like this one are often there because there is nowhere else for them to go, because their families cannot provide the level of care they need, because their bodies have outlasted their ability to live independently. They are, by definition, dependent on the staff and administration of the place where they live to keep them safe.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services share oversight responsibility for facilities like Broad Mountain. When a complaint comes in, it is investigated. When inspectors find immediate jeopardy, they are required to notify the facility's administrator in person, on the day the finding is made, and to document that notification.
The inspection was completed October 17, 2025. The document was printed April 13, 2026, nearly six months later. The plan of correction, if one has been accepted, is not included in the record available here.
What is included is the finding itself, sitting at the top of the severity scale, affecting people who had no choice but to trust the facility with their safety, and a citation record that will follow Broad Mountain in federal databases for years.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Broad Mountain Health and Rehabilitation Center from 2025-10-17 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.
Editorial process: Inspection findings are extracted from CMS source documents and synthesized using AI, reviewed for factual accuracy against the original report by our editorial team.
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BROAD MOUNTAIN HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER in FRACKVILLE, PA was cited for immediate jeopardy violations during a health inspection on October 17, 2025.
The inspection was triggered by a complaint, not a routine survey.
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.