Millcreek Manor: Insulin Error for Diabetic Resident - PA
The resident, identified only as Resident R1, has lived at the facility since December 2021. The combination of diagnoses is significant. A pancreatectomy, the surgical removal of the pancreas, leaves a patient unable to produce insulin naturally, making blood sugar management both essential and precarious. Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, compounds the complexity of care. For this resident, getting insulin dosing wrong is not a minor administrative matter.
The physician's order was specific. A standing order dated August 22, 2025, instructed nurses to inject three units of Lispro insulin three times daily, at 9 a.m., 1 p.m., and 6 p.m. It included a hard stop: hold the dose if the resident's blood sugar fell below 270 milligrams per deciliter. The threshold was set high, which is itself a signal of how carefully this resident's glucose levels had to be managed.
On October 6, the resident's blood sugar was 257 at 1 p.m. Below the threshold. The insulin should have been held. It was given anyway. By 6 p.m. the same day, the blood sugar had dropped further, to 157, well below the cutoff. The insulin was given again.
Two doses. Same day. Same order. Same instruction to stop.
Inspectors reviewed the October medication administration records and found both entries. The Director of Nursing, interviewed on October 13, confirmed it. The insulin had been administered on both occasions when it was ordered to be held. There was no dispute about what happened.
The inspection cited the facility under the federal standard requiring that residents be free from significant medication errors. Inspectors rated the harm level as minimal or potential, meaning no documented injury was recorded in the materials reviewed. But the absence of a documented outcome is not the same as the absence of risk. Lispro is a fast-acting insulin. Giving it when blood sugar is already below a physician-set threshold, and then giving it again hours later when levels have dropped further, moves a patient toward hypoglycemia, a condition in which blood sugar falls low enough to cause confusion, loss of consciousness, or worse.
The facility's own hypoglycemia policy, reviewed by inspectors, required nurses to contact the physician if signs of low blood sugar could not be resolved through the facility's standard response protocol. Whether that policy was ever triggered on October 6 is not addressed in the inspection report.
What the report does address is straightforward. A doctor wrote an order. The order included a specific condition under which the medication should not be given. On one day, that condition was met twice, and the medication was given twice.
The inspection, conducted as a complaint survey, covered seven residents. Only this one was cited for a medication error.
Millcreek Manor has not been quoted in the inspection materials responding to the findings. The report notes that a plan of correction is required for the facility to remain in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Resident R1 remains at the facility.
Full Inspection Report
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Millcreek Manor in ERIE, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 18, 2025.
The resident, identified only as Resident R1, has lived at the facility since December 2021.
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.