Woodlyn Heights Healthcare: Accident Hazard Violations - MN
The facility has filed no plan of correction.
That last detail matters. When inspectors cite a nursing home for a deficiency, the facility is expected to acknowledge the problem and describe, in writing, what it intends to do about it. A correction plan is not optional paperwork. It is the mechanism by which a facility tells regulators, residents, and families: we know what went wrong, and here is how we are fixing it. Woodlyn Heights has not done that.
The accident hazard citation falls under a federal category that covers one of the most basic obligations a nursing home carries: making sure the physical environment does not hurt the people living in it, and making sure enough staff are watching closely enough to intervene before something goes wrong. Inspectors classified the violation as an isolated incident with no documented harm to any resident, but with the potential for more than minimal harm. That is the agency's way of saying: no one was hurt this time.
Nursing home falls and accident-related injuries are among the most common causes of serious harm in long-term care settings. Residents in skilled nursing facilities are often older, frailer, and less able to catch themselves or call for help than people living independently. A wet floor, an unsecured piece of equipment, a hallway obstacle, a resident left without adequate supervision near a stairwell or exit — any of these can produce a broken hip, a head injury, or worse. The inspection report does not specify what the hazard was or where it was located inside the facility. It does not name the resident or residents who were at risk. What it records is the conclusion inspectors reached: the environment was not safe enough, and the oversight was not sufficient.
Thirteen deficiencies in a single inspection is a significant number. The accident hazard finding was one piece of a broader picture that inspectors documented across multiple areas of care and operations at Woodlyn Heights. The full scope of what inspectors found across those 13 citations is not detailed here, but the volume alone signals a facility that was not meeting standards in isolated corners of its operation. Deficiencies tend to cluster. A home that is falling short on supervision and hazard prevention is often falling short in ways that compound each other.
What the inspection record does not contain is any response from the facility. No administrator is quoted explaining what happened. No director of nursing has described what corrective steps are underway. No timeline has been submitted for when the hazard will be addressed or how supervision protocols will be strengthened. The line in the inspection record reads simply: provider has no plan of correction.
For the residents living at Woodlyn Heights, that absence is the relevant fact. They are in a facility that inspectors found to be deficient in accident prevention as of December 31, 2025, and that facility has not, as of the record available, told anyone what it plans to do differently.
The inspection was conducted as a complaint survey, meaning it was triggered not by a routine scheduling cycle but by a concern someone raised. Complaint surveys are initiated when a resident, family member, staff member, or outside party contacts regulators with a specific allegation. The inspection that followed produced 13 citations. The nature of the original complaint is not detailed in the available record.
Families choosing a nursing home for a parent or spouse rely on inspection records as one of the few independent sources of information about what actually happens inside a facility. A deficiency for accident hazards and inadequate supervision, unaccompanied by any correction plan, is the kind of finding that does not resolve itself. Hazards do not disappear because an inspection ended. Supervision gaps do not close because a surveyor left the building.
The residents at Woodlyn Heights are still there.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Woodlyn Heights Healthcare Center from 2025-12-31 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
Editorial process: Inspection findings are extracted from CMS source documents and synthesized using AI, reviewed for factual accuracy against the original report by our editorial team.
Professional review: All content reviewed by Christopher F. Nesbitt, Sr., NH EMT & BU-trained Paralegal.
Last verified: August 17, 2026 · Our methodology
Woodlyn Heights Healthcare Center in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN was cited for violations during a health inspection on December 31, 2025.
The facility has filed no plan of correction.
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.