Stonebrooke Rehab: Staff Cursed at Resident - IN
The incident happened on July 18, 2025. Federal inspectors documented it during a complaint inspection on October 23.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident F, had become upset that morning because there was no mechanical lift to help him out of bed. He started cursing at the two aides assigned to him. One of them, identified as CNA 4, cursed back.
CNA 5, the second aide in the room, later told investigators that CNA 4 used the words "F---" and "S---" while speaking to Resident F, though CNA 5 said she wasn't sure exactly what was said beyond that. CNA 5 reported the incident to a nurse.
That same morning, a progress note was written indicating Resident F was resting in bed with no signs of distress. The note described him as pleasant, smiling, and talkative. He denied any concerns, denied pain, denied psychosocial distress. A skin assessment came back with no abnormal findings. His physician and the facility's Executive Director were notified of the alleged incident.
The note reads like a routine morning check. Nothing in it suggests a man had just been cursed at by someone responsible for his care.
CNA 4 was suspended that day while the facility conducted its investigation. Five days later, on July 23, the facility terminated the aide. The employee communication form listed the reason as "resident abuse or neglect or intentional violation of resident rights."
The facility's own abuse policy, which the Executive Director provided to inspectors on October 22, defined verbal abuse as the use of oral, written, or gestured language that willfully included disparaging and derogatory terms directed at residents. It listed mental abuse as including mocking, insulting, ridiculing, and yelling. The policy stated that each resident would be provided with an environment free of abuse.
Federal inspectors cited the facility under F0600, the tag covering abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The level of harm was recorded as minimal harm or potential for actual harm. The citation affected few residents.
What the inspection record does not contain is any account from Resident F himself about what it felt like to be lying in bed, unable to get up, and have the person who was supposed to help him start swearing at him instead.
The progress note says he was smiling. It says he denied any concerns. It does not say whether he was asked, specifically, about what CNA 4 said to him.
There is a version of this story where everything worked the way it was supposed to. A resident got upset. An aide responded badly. A coworker in the room reported it immediately. The facility suspended the aide the same day, completed an investigation, and fired her within the week. The physician was notified. The executive director was notified. A federal citation was issued. The record is complete.
There is another version where a man who needed a mechanical lift to get out of bed, and didn't have one, found himself in an argument with an aide who then swore at him, and the official documentation of that morning describes him as pleasant and smiling.
Both versions are in the inspection report.
The mechanical lift is worth a moment. Resident F didn't start the argument over nothing. He became upset, the record says, because there was no lift available to assist him out of bed. What that means in practice is that he was dependent on staff to move him, the equipment required to do it safely wasn't there, and he reacted the way people sometimes react when they are stuck and frustrated and need help they aren't getting. He cursed at the aides. CNA 4 cursed back.
The investigation focused on CNA 4's conduct, as it should have. The inspection record does not indicate whether anyone examined why the lift wasn't available, or whether that question was asked at all.
CNA 4 is gone. The citation is on the facility's record. Resident F, according to the progress note written the morning it happened, was resting comfortably with no abnormal findings and no concerns.
The inspection report does not say what happened to him after that.
Full Inspection Report
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STONEBROOKE REHABILITATION CENTER in NEW CASTLE, IN was cited for violations during a health inspection on October 23, 2025.
The incident happened on July 18, 2025.
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