Embassy of Wyoming Valley: Food Temperature Violations - PA
The resident, identified in inspection documents only as Resident 98, was admitted to the facility and transferred to the emergency department on November 28, 2025. The fall had happened three days earlier. The neurological checks were supposed to track what was happening in between.
Thirteen of them, on paper, showed otherwise.
Federal inspectors reviewed the electronic clinical record and found that the documentation for all 21 neurological assessments was not finalized, or locked against further alteration, until January 7, 2026, more than five weeks after the resident had been sent to the hospital. A lock date is the point at which a record becomes read-only. Until that moment, it can be changed.
The backdated assessments were not the only problem inspectors found in Resident 98's chart.
Two progress notes carried timestamps that did not match when they were actually created. A note dated November 27, 2025, at 11:29 AM described the resident as awake, alert, oriented to self, and confused per baseline. The electronic record showed that note was created on November 30, 2025, at 2:31 PM, two days after the resident had been transferred to the emergency department and three days after the note claimed to have been written. A second note, dated November 28, 2025, at 10:37 AM, with the same clinical description, was created that same afternoon, November 30, at 2:38 PM.
Both notes were written after the fact. Both were dated as if they had not been.
There was also a certified registered nurse practitioner progress note from November 26, 2025, signed at 5:27 PM, that was never uploaded into Resident 98's electronic clinical record at all. The facility provided an amended version of that same note, signed on November 28 at 6:33 PM. That amended note was also never uploaded.
When inspectors sat down with the nursing home administrator on January 30, 2026, the explanation offered was that staff had been temporarily covering medical records duties while the facility arranged for outside consultative services. The medical records practitioner's position, in other words, was vacant, and someone else had been filling in.
What that explanation does not account for is the specific pattern of what was missing and what was late. The neurological assessments for a resident who fell, was monitored, and then sent to the emergency department were not signed until after she was gone. The progress notes describing her condition in the days before the transfer were written after she was already at the hospital, then backdated. The nurse practitioner's notes from that same window were never entered into the system at all.
Inspectors cited the facility for failing to ensure the accuracy and completeness of Resident 98's medical record. The deficiency was tagged at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm.
What the record showed, and when it showed it, are not the same thing. The assessments documenting how Resident 98 looked in the hours and days after her fall, the notes a physician or emergency room clinician would rely on to understand what had been observed and when, were created or finalized after she was no longer in the building to benefit from them.
The inspection was a complaint survey. Someone had raised a concern. Inspectors came and looked at three closed records. They found the problem in one of them.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Embassy of Wyoming Valley from 2026-01-30 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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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.
The fall had happened three days earlier.
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.