Regent Park Rehab: Respiratory Care Failures - KS
She wasn't. She hadn't been.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 49, had survived a stroke that left her left side weak and partially paralyzed. Her left hand had developed contracture, a condition where muscle and joint tissue tighten and fix in place permanently if left untreated. A therapist had evaluated her in October 2025 and found her arm completely flaccid, meaning the muscles offered no resistance at all, a condition the therapist described as increasing her risk for contractures significantly. The therapist gave her a resting hand splint. Staff could also use a rolled washcloth placed between her fingers and palm. A physician's order formalized the requirement: the device was to be in place every day shift and every night shift.
Her medical record showed it had been. Every single shift, from September 26, 2025 through the day inspectors arrived on February 11, 2026, someone had documented on the Medication Administration Record that the rolled washcloth was in place. No refusals noted. No missed placements recorded. The record was clean.
The resident's hand told a different story.
On February 9, 2026, at 10 in the morning, inspectors found her sitting at the dining room table in her wheelchair. A padded tray was attached to the chair. Her left arm was not on it. Her hand hung down at her side, swollen, curled into a loose fist. Nothing was in it.
The next afternoon, February 10 at 2 p.m., she was in bed with the head elevated. Her left elbow rested on a pillow, her hand dangling off the edge, swollen, fisted. Still nothing in her hand.
An hour later, at 3 in the afternoon, inspectors spoke with her directly. She had intact cognition, scoring 13 out of 15 on the standard mental status assessment administered at admission, meaning she understood her situation clearly and could speak to it. She told inspectors she worked with therapy and that therapy had given her something to wear on her hand, a pool noodle with a strap. She knew what it was for. She knew she was supposed to be wearing it. She said she should be wearing it right then.
It was on her dresser.
Consultant Staff GG, the therapist who had evaluated her back in October, told inspectors he had found no contracture at that point, but he had found tone, meaning some resistance in the tissue that signaled the joint was at risk. He had provided the resting hand splint as a preventive measure and noted the rolled washcloth as an alternative. He was clear about what her flaccid arm meant: no muscle activity to counteract the pull of tightening tissue, which left the joint vulnerable to exactly the kind of permanent fixation the device was meant to prevent.
Licensed Nurse H, interviewed the morning of February 11, confirmed that nurses were responsible for placing the towel or splint in the resident's hand and that it should be there at all times. She confirmed nurses were also responsible for verifying and documenting placement on the MAR.
Administrative Nurse D said the same thing. She expected nurses to place the splint on the resident's hand and to document it correctly.
The documentation said they had. The observations said they had not.
That gap, between what the record showed and what inspectors found on three separate visits over two days, is the center of what federal inspectors cited as a deficiency at the February 11 inspection. The facility's own restorative nursing policy stated that the goal for all residents receiving restorative nursing services included preventing contractures. The physician's order was in place. The care plan directed staff to act. The MAR recorded compliance. And across two days of observation, the splint was never in her hand.
Contracture is not a minor inconvenience. When a joint fixes permanently in a contracted position, the consequences include chronic pain, skin breakdown in the creases where the hand closes on itself, difficulty with hygiene, and loss of any remaining function in the limb. For a resident whose left side was already weakened by stroke, whose arm was already flaccid, and who already had a documented contracture of that hand, the stakes of consistent treatment were not abstract.
She was cognitively intact. She knew she needed the device. She knew where it was. She told inspectors herself. That she had to be the one to point it out, that no staff member had placed it before inspectors arrived on any of those three visits, is the detail the inspection report returns to without elaboration.
The facility's census at the time of inspection was 61 residents. Inspectors reviewed 15 as part of the sample, and this was the one resident flagged for range of motion and contracture concerns.
Regent Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare is located at 10604 East 13th Street N in Wichita. The inspection was completed February 11, 2026.
At 3 in the afternoon on February 10, a woman who had survived a stroke, who understood her diagnosis, who knew the name of the device therapy had given her and what it was designed to prevent, looked across her room at a pool noodle on a dresser and explained to inspectors that she was supposed to be wearing it right now.
Nobody had put it on her.
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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 resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 49, had survived a stroke that left her left side weak and partially paralyzed.
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.