Embassy of Wyoming Valley: Food Safety Violations - PA
Resident 98, as inspectors identified her, was transferred to the emergency department on November 28, 2025, three days after her fall. The neurological monitoring assessments that should have tracked her condition in the days between the fall and that transfer were not finalized in the electronic record until January 7, 2026, more than five weeks after she left the building. A lock date in an electronic health record is the moment documentation is sealed and made read-only, preventing any further changes. The record was not locked until January.
The backdated assessments were not the only problem inspectors found.
A progress note dated November 27, 2025, at 11:29 AM described Resident 98 as awake, alert, oriented to self, and confused at her baseline. The electronic record showed that note was actually created on November 30, 2025, at 2:31 PM, two days after she had already been transferred to the emergency department. A second progress note, dated November 28, 2025, at 10:37 AM, carried the same description of her condition. It was created that same afternoon, November 30, at 2:38 PM.
Both notes were written, or at minimum entered into the system, after the resident was no longer in the facility's care.
There was also a certified registered nurse practitioner's progress note dated November 26, 2025, signed at 5:27 PM. That note was never uploaded into Resident 98's electronic clinical record at all. The facility later provided an amended version of the same note, signed on November 28 at 6:33 PM. That version was also never uploaded.
When the nursing home administrator sat down with inspectors on January 30, 2026, to go over what they had found, the explanation offered was staffing. The facility had been without a dedicated medical records practitioner and was relying on other staff to cover those responsibilities while it worked on arranging outside consultative services. The administrator did not dispute the findings.
The inspection was triggered by a complaint, not a routine survey. Inspectors reviewed three closed records and found the documentation failures in one of them, Resident 98's.
What the record does not show is whether the neurological assessments that were eventually signed actually reflected what staff observed at the time, or whether they were reconstructed from memory, nursing notes, or other sources weeks after the fact. An assessment signed on November 30, after a patient has been transferred to a hospital following a fall that prompted neurological monitoring, cannot be verified the same way a contemporaneous record can. The electronic timestamps are the only objective evidence of when documentation was actually completed.
Neurological checks after a fall exist for one reason: to catch deterioration early enough to act on it. A resident who appears stable one hour can show signs of a subdural hematoma the next. The value of those checks depends entirely on them being done, documented, and reviewed in real time. A record finalized five weeks later, with notes entered two days after the resident left the building, does not serve that purpose.
Inspectors cited the facility for failing to ensure the accuracy and completeness of Resident 98's clinical record. The violation was rated at the level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm.
The resident had already been transferred to an emergency department before most of the documentation was completed. What happened to her there, and what the emergency team found, is not recorded in the inspection report.
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Last verified: August 4, 2026 · Our methodology
EMBASSY OF WYOMING VALLEY in WILKES BARRE, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 30, 2026.
Resident 98, as inspectors identified her, was transferred to the emergency department on November 28, 2025, three days after her fall.
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.