Camellia Gardens: Drug Storage Violations - NC
The inspection turned up a documentation failure that reached across the entire facility. For residents and staff alike, the nursing home could not produce records showing COVID-19 vaccinations had been offered, administered, or formally declined at any point in 2025.
Resident 44, a man with diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and obstructive sleep apnea, had no record in his immunization file showing he had ever been offered the vaccine. When inspectors interviewed him that afternoon, he said he wasn't sure if anyone had ever brought it up.
The infection preventionist, who had held the role for roughly a year and a half, told inspectors she believed she had offered the vaccine to residents over that period. Every resident, she said, had declined. But she could not locate a single piece of documentation to support that. She could not recall whether any resident had signed a declination form. When pressed, she acknowledged she could not find any record at all.
The director of nursing had been at the facility for about four months. She told inspectors she had not focused on COVID-19 vaccinations since taking the position, and confirmed outright that the facility had not offered the vaccine to residents during her tenure. She said she was not aware of any documentation showing it had been offered before she arrived either.
The administrator said she had been told by the infection preventionist that vaccinations were being offered. She said she did not know why they would not have been. She identified the director of nursing as ultimately responsible for overseeing the process, since the infection preventionist reported to her. The director of nursing, for her part, said she had not managed that function.
The breakdown extended to staff. A nurse aide interviewed that morning said she did not recall the facility offering COVID-19 vaccination information or the vaccine itself to employees during the past year.
When inspectors asked the infection preventionist who was responsible for tracking staff vaccination records, she said she did not believe that was her job. She thought department managers were probably responsible for their own staff. The director of nursing said she had not managed the staff vaccination logs and was not sure who had. The administrator said she and the nursing management team, including the infection preventionist, the unit manager, and the director of nursing, had been working together on it, and that information was forwarded by email to the corporate office as vaccinations were provided. She said she would try to obtain the records. She could not provide them.
The unit manager, interviewed earlier that morning, said she could not provide documentation of Resident 44's COVID-19 vaccination status either.
What the inspection found was not a gap in one person's records or a filing error in a single department. It was a facility where the person designated to prevent infection did not know whether she had ever documented a vaccination offer, the nurse responsible for overseeing her could not say who tracked the records, and the person running the building had accepted assurances that the work was being done without verifying that it was.
Resident 44, cognitively intact and capable of answering questions, had been living at Camellia Gardens with a chronic disease profile that made respiratory illness a serious risk. He told inspectors he simply did not know if anyone had ever asked him about the vaccine.
Nobody could tell him differently.
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Camellia Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehab in Henderson, NC was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 30, 2026.
The inspection turned up a documentation failure that reached across the entire facility.
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.