Mi Casita Nursing: False Medication Records Found - TX
The nurse was the Assistant Director of Nursing at Mi Casita Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Quaker Avenue. The residents were identified in inspection records only as Resident #1 and Resident #17. Both required oxygen. Both had tubing that went unchanged during her shift, despite her signature on their medication administration records saying otherwise.
When inspectors interviewed the ADON on March 27, 2026, she said she had intended to change the tubing later in the shift. She got busy. She signed for the procedure first, she explained, as a way of being helpful to the oncoming nurse, so the task would be flagged as something to finish. She acknowledged she had been trained during her nursing education to sign for procedures only after completing them.
She said she understood what inaccurate documentation could mean: residents could receive incomplete care, or miss care that a physician had ordered entirely.
The Director of Nursing said she had not known the entries were false until inspectors raised it. She told inspectors that documentation should be accurate at all times, that a task should only be signed for after it is done, and that if something goes undone, a strikeout notation should appear in the record. She said nursing administration and a regional nurse monitored documentation accuracy through onsite visits.
The administrator said the same: she had not known. Her expectation, she told inspectors, was that staff document all care accurately and on time. The monitoring system, she said, was random checks of health records by nursing administration and the regional nurse.
Nobody had caught it.
The facility's own charting policy, last revised in July 2017, states that documentation in the medical record will be objective, complete, and accurate, and that records of procedures and treatments must include the date and time the procedure was actually provided. The ADON's entries met none of those requirements.
What the inspection report does not say is how long Residents #1 and #17 went without the tubing change, or whether the oncoming nurse discovered the gap and corrected it, or whether anyone checked on the residents before the false entries were found. The report classifies the harm level as minimal, with potential for actual harm. It does not describe the residents' conditions beyond their need for oxygen.
The ADON's explanation carries its own problem. Signing for a task as a reminder to finish it, or to ease the transition for the next nurse, inverts the purpose of a medical record. A signature in a medication administration record does not mean "this still needs doing." It means it was done. Any nurse reading those entries after the shift change would have had no reason to check whether the oxygen tubing had actually been changed. The record said it had.
That is the gap the ADON described when she told inspectors what could go wrong: care that is ordered for a resident could be missed if signed for and not completed. She was describing, precisely, what she had done.
Inspectors completed the survey on March 27, 2026. The facility's plan of correction was not included in the inspection materials reviewed for this report.
Resident #1 and Resident #17 are not named in the record. Their conditions before and after the shift in question are not described. What is documented is that a nurse responsible for overseeing their care signed her name to something that was not true, and that the systems her facility described as safeguards did not catch it until federal inspectors arrived.
Full Inspection Report
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Last verified: June 19, 2026 · Our methodology
MI CASITA NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER in LUBBOCK, TX was cited for violations during a health inspection on March 27, 2026.
The nurse was the Assistant Director of Nursing at Mi Casita Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Quaker Avenue.
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.