Regent Park: Range of Motion Care Failures - KS
That was February 9th. The same thing was true the next afternoon when inspectors came back and found her in bed, elbow resting on a pillow, hand dangling again. Still nothing.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 49, is a stroke survivor with hemiplegia affecting her left side. Her left arm, a consulting therapist told inspectors, was completely flaccid, meaning her muscles offered no resistance on their own. That kind of flaccidity increases the risk of contracture, the permanent, abnormal fixation of a joint or muscle that can leave a limb locked in position. She had already been diagnosed with a contracture of the left hand when she arrived. Preventing it from worsening was the entire point of the device sitting on her dresser.
Regent Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare, a 61-bed facility at 10604 East 13th Street North in Wichita, was cited for the lapse following a February 11, 2026 inspection by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The physician's order had been in place since September 26, 2025: place a clean, dry, rolled washcloth between the resident's fingers and palm, every day shift and every night shift. The care plan, dated October 3, 2025, repeated the same instruction. The therapist had also provided a resting hand splint, a pool noodle fitted with a strap to hold it in place, as an alternative. Either one would do. Staff were supposed to document placement on the medication administration record every shift.
They did document it. That is what makes this harder to explain.
The February 2026 medication administration record, covering the period from September 26, 2025 through the date of inspection, showed the rolled washcloth logged as in place every day shift and every night shift. No refusals were noted. No progress notes documented that the treatment had been skipped or that the resident had declined it. On paper, this intervention had been completed faithfully for more than four months.
On February 10th, at three in the afternoon, inspectors spoke with Resident 49 directly. She knew what she was supposed to be wearing. She said she worked with therapy, that they had given her something for her hand, and she described it accurately: a pool noodle with a strap to keep it in place, to prevent her hand from contracting. When inspectors asked when she was supposed to wear it, she said she should be wearing it right then.
It was on her dresser, across the room.
She had a BIMS cognitive score of 13, indicating intact cognition. She understood her condition, she understood the purpose of the device, and she understood it was not on her hand.
The consulting therapist, identified in inspection records as Consultant Staff GG, told inspectors he had evaluated Resident 49 on October 2, 2025, after the provider requested therapy for the left-hand contracture. At that point, he said, she did not yet have a full contracture but did have tone, meaning some resistance in the joint. He gave her the resting hand splint and noted that a rolled-up hand towel was an acceptable alternative. He also flagged that the complete flaccidity of her left arm placed her at elevated risk. His evaluation was the clinical foundation for everything that followed: the physician's order, the care plan entry, the MAR documentation.
A licensed nurse interviewed on February 11th confirmed that the nurse on duty was responsible for placing the clean towel or splint in Resident 49's hand and that it should be there all the time. She confirmed that nurses verified and documented placement on the MAR. The administrative nurse said the same: she expected the splint to be on the resident's hand to prevent contractures and to be documented correctly.
Both knew what was supposed to happen. Neither could explain why it had not.
What inspectors observed over two consecutive days was a gap between what the records said and what was actually happening. The MAR said the intervention was completed. The resident's hand said otherwise. The splint on the dresser said otherwise. The swelling said otherwise.
Contracture, once established, does not reverse easily. A joint that has been allowed to fix in an abnormal position can lose range of motion permanently. For a stroke survivor already dealing with left-side paralysis, a contracted hand adds another layer of functional loss, affecting grip, hygiene, skin integrity, and the basic ability to use the limb in any purposeful way. The therapist who evaluated Resident 49 in October found she did not yet have a full contracture. He gave her tools to keep it that way.
Four months later, she sat in the dining room with her hand swollen and dangling, and the tool was on her dresser.
The facility's own restorative nursing documentation policy stated that the goals for all residents receiving restorative nursing services include preventing contractures. The policy existed. The order existed. The care plan existed. The MAR entries existed. What did not consistently exist, at least on the two days inspectors observed, was anyone putting the device in her hand.
Inspectors cited the deficiency at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, meaning the violation had not yet produced documented injury. But the clinical risk Consultant Staff GG identified in October, a flaccid arm with existing tone and a prior contracture diagnosis, had not changed. The daily intervention he recommended existed precisely because the window for preventing permanent damage is not indefinitely open.
Resident 49 knew that. She told inspectors she should be wearing the splint right then.
It was still on the dresser.
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REGENT PARK REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE in WICHITA, KS was cited for violations during a health inspection on February 11, 2026.
The same thing was true the next afternoon when inspectors came back and found her in bed, elbow resting on a pillow, hand dangling again.
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.