Horsham Center for Jewish Life: Records Delays - PA
Federal inspectors who visited the facility in November 2025 found that the nursing home had failed to release medical records on time for three residents, in every single case they reviewed. Not one request was fulfilled within the window the facility's own policy sets.
The delays weren't close calls. One resident's representative submitted a signed request on July 3, 2025. The records didn't go out until July 21, eighteen days later. Another request came in on August 8. The records weren't sent until September 5, a gap of twenty-eight days. A third request, submitted July 16, wasn't fulfilled until August 4, nineteen days after it arrived.
The facility's own policy, last revised in November 2009, says residents can access their records within twenty-four hours of a written request, and can obtain photocopies with forty-eight hours' notice. Weekends and holidays don't count toward either window. Even accounting for those exclusions, the delays documented by inspectors stretched far beyond anything the policy contemplates.
The Medical Records Director, identified in the inspection report only as Employee E3, sat down with inspectors on October 30, 2025, and reviewed the documentation for all three residents. According to inspectors, E3 acknowledged during that conversation that the records had not been released in a timely manner.
That was the extent of the explanation on record.
Medical records requests at nursing homes aren't bureaucratic formalities. They are often filed by family members trying to understand what happened to a loved one, by attorneys, by physicians taking over a patient's care, by the residents themselves. A signed request is the starting point. What comes after is supposed to be fast. Eighteen days is not fast. Twenty-eight days is not fast.
The inspection was triggered by a complaint, not a routine survey. Someone flagged this. Inspectors came in and found that the problem wasn't isolated to one request or one staff misstep. It was consistent across every case they pulled.
Three requests. Three delays. Three residents or their representatives left waiting.
The deficiency was cited at a level of potential for minimal harm, the lowest tier on the federal scale. That classification reflects what inspectors could document, not necessarily what the wait cost the people on the other end of those requests. The inspection report doesn't say who filed the requests, what they needed the records for, or what the delay meant for them.
It doesn't say whether the records were eventually complete when they arrived. It doesn't say whether anyone at the facility noticed the delays before inspectors arrived and asked about them.
What it says is that the Medical Records Director reviewed the documentation, agreed the releases were late, and that the facility's own written policy had set a standard the department wasn't meeting.
Horsham Center for Jewish Life is located at 1425 Horsham Road in North Wales. The inspection was completed November 24, 2025.
The three people who signed those forms in the summer of 2025 waited weeks for records they were entitled to receive in days. The inspection report doesn't follow them past the date the records were finally sent. It doesn't say whether the wait mattered, or how much.
Full Inspection Report
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HORSHAM CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE in NORTH WALES, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 24, 2025.
Not one request was fulfilled within the window the facility's own policy sets.
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