Center Point Health Care: Nutrition Deficiency - LA
Federal inspectors found that Center Point Health Care and Rehab failed to follow physician orders for Resident #1, who depends entirely on tube feeding after suffering a cerebral infarction that left her unable to swallow. The 128-pound woman had been steadily losing weight since August.
The facility's registered dietician warned on November 6 that the current feeding rate was providing only 1,320 calories daily — just 81 percent of what the resident needed. She recommended increasing the Glucerna 1.5 formula from 40 milliliters per hour to 50 milliliters per hour to meet the woman's daily requirement of 1,636 to 1,800 calories.
The attending physician approved the dietician's recommendation and issued new orders on November 12 for the higher feeding rate. But when inspectors arrived nearly two weeks later, staff were still administering the old, insufficient rate.
On November 24, inspectors observed the resident lying in bed with her feeding pump set to 40 milliliters per hour — the rate that had been discontinued 12 days earlier. When a licensed practical nurse reconnected the patient's tube feeding that afternoon, she again set the pump to the outdated rate.
"She reviewed Resident #1's tube feeding order and confirmed the tube feeding should have been infusing at 50 mL/hr for 22 hours per day," inspectors wrote about their interview with the LPN, who had just administered the wrong rate while acknowledging what the correct order should have been.
The resident's weight history told the story of prolonged inadequate nutrition. She weighed 139.4 pounds on August 29. By September 15, she had dropped to 136 pounds. October 10 showed 130 pounds. Her most recent weight on November 17 was 128.8 pounds — a loss of more than 10 pounds in less than three months.
The facility's own policy required staff to "ensure the resident maintains acceptable parameters of nutritional status" and to provide "tube feeding or parenteral fluids in the context of the resident's overall clinical condition." The policy specifically called for "consistently implementing pertinent approaches" to optimize each resident's nutrition.
The registered dietician confirmed during interviews that the resident needed the higher feeding rate "to increase her caloric intake to better meet her needs." She told inspectors the physician had approved her recommendation and "therefore, the facility should have been administering the tube feeding at 50 mL/hr when the physician ordered it."
The director of nursing acknowledged the breakdown when shown the dietician's November 6 note. She confirmed the physician's order had been implemented on November 12 for the higher rate and admitted "Resident #1's tube feeding should have been administered at the physician ordered rate."
A nurse practitioner interviewed by inspectors said she was "in agreement with increasing Resident #1's tube feeding rate to 50 mL/hr" and "expected Resident #1's tube feeding to be administered at the ordered rate."
The resident's diagnoses included cerebral infarction, hemiplegia, protein-calorie malnutrition, adult failure to thrive, and dysphagia. Her care plan noted she was "dependent on tube feeding" and required "nothing by mouth" due to her swallowing disorder.
For 12 days after the physician's order, nursing staff continued providing nutrition that fell nearly 20 percent short of the resident's daily caloric needs. The woman, already diagnosed with malnutrition and failure to thrive, continued receiving inadequate calories while her weight dropped to its lowest point in months.
The facility's systematic failure to implement the physician's feeding orders meant a vulnerable stroke patient remained undernourished despite clear medical directives designed to reverse her dangerous weight loss.
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Center Point Health Care and Rehab in BATON ROUGE, LA was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 25, 2025.
The 128-pound woman had been steadily losing weight since August.
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