ANCHORAGE, AK — Federal health inspectors identified nine deficiencies at Centennial Post Acute during a complaint investigation concluded on December 24, 2025, including a failure to maintain a safe environment free from accident hazards. The facility has not submitted a plan of correction for the cited violations.
Accident Hazard and Supervision Failures
The complaint investigation at Centennial Post Acute revealed that the facility failed to meet federal requirements under regulatory tag F0689, which mandates that nursing homes maintain areas free from accident hazards and provide adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
The deficiency was classified at Scope/Severity Level D, indicating an isolated incident with no documented actual harm but with the potential for more than minimal harm to residents. This classification means that while no resident was physically harmed during the period reviewed, inspectors determined the conditions present posed a meaningful risk to resident safety.
Federal regulations require nursing homes to proactively identify environmental hazards and staffing gaps that could lead to falls, injuries, or other preventable accidents. Under the F0689 tag, facilities must conduct regular safety assessments of common areas, resident rooms, and outdoor spaces, and must ensure that staffing levels are sufficient to monitor residents who may be at elevated risk.
Why Accident Prevention Standards Exist
Accident hazard prevention is one of the foundational requirements in skilled nursing facility regulation. Unaddressed environmental hazards — such as wet floors, poor lighting, unsecured equipment, or blocked pathways — are among the leading causes of falls in nursing home settings. Falls are the most common cause of injury among nursing home residents, and can result in fractures, head trauma, hospitalization, and a significant decline in overall health and mobility.
Adequate supervision is equally critical. Residents with cognitive impairment, mobility limitations, or a history of falls require individualized monitoring plans. When supervision levels fall below what is clinically appropriate, residents face increased risk of wandering into unsafe areas, attempting unassisted transfers, or encountering hazards without staff present to intervene.
A properly functioning accident prevention program includes documented risk assessments for each resident, environmental safety audits, staff training on hazard identification, and prompt correction of identified risks.
Nine Total Deficiencies and No Correction Plan
The accident hazard citation was one of nine deficiencies identified during the December 2025 inspection. Multiple deficiencies during a single investigation typically indicate broader operational concerns at a facility, potentially reflecting systemic issues in staffing, training, management oversight, or resource allocation.
Perhaps most notably, Centennial Post Acute has not filed a plan of correction for the cited deficiencies. Federal regulations require facilities to submit a written plan of correction detailing specific steps they will take to address each deficiency, the staff responsible for implementation, and a timeline for completion. The absence of a correction plan means there is no documented commitment from the facility to resolve the identified problems.
When a facility does not submit a correction plan, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may pursue enforcement actions, which can range from directed plans of correction and civil monetary penalties to denial of payment for new admissions or, in serious cases, termination from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
What Residents and Families Should Know
Families with loved ones at Centennial Post Acute should be aware that the facility's current inspection record reflects unresolved safety concerns. Reviewing a facility's full inspection history on the CMS Care Compare website provides additional context about patterns of compliance or deficiency over time.
Key questions families may want to raise with facility administrators include what specific hazards were identified, what steps are being taken to address them, and when a formal correction plan will be submitted to regulators.
The complaint-driven nature of this investigation also indicates that concerns about conditions at the facility were raised by a resident, family member, or staff member prior to the inspection, prompting federal surveyors to conduct an on-site review.
The full inspection report for Centennial Post Acute is available through CMS and provides detailed findings for all nine cited deficiencies. Readers seeking comprehensive information about the facility's compliance history are encouraged to review the complete report.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Centennial Post Acute from 2025-12-24 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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