Third Avenue Health & Rehab: Admission Paperwork Failures - PA
That finding came out of a March 27, 2026 inspection at the 702 Third Avenue facility, which serves residents in the Kingston area. Inspectors reviewed 17 residents' records. One came back incomplete in a way the nursing home administrator could not explain away.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 63, was admitted with cervical myelopathy, a condition involving compression of the spinal cord in the neck that can cause pain, weakness, and difficulty moving. He also had generalized muscle weakness. His cognitive status was not in question. A standardized assessment conducted January 5, 2026, gave him a perfect score of 15 on the Brief Interview for Mental Status, the highest possible, indicating fully intact cognition. He participated in his own assessment process. He was discharged February 21, 2026.
What inspectors could not find, anywhere in his clinical record, was documentation that anyone at the facility had ever handed him the paperwork he was owed from the moment he walked in.
Not his patient portion liability, meaning what he personally would be responsible to pay. Not the daily rate cost structure. Not his resident rights. Not his appeal rights. Not his consent to treatment. Not information about his right to choose his own therapy providers or pharmacy. Not the bed hold policy explaining whether the facility would keep his room during a hospitalization and at what cost. Not the consequences if he failed to pay.
The facility's own admissions policy, last reviewed just a month before the inspection in February 2026, stated clearly that this information is to be reviewed with each newly admitted resident or their representative. The admission agreement itself included a signature page for exactly this purpose.
There was no signed page in the file.
The nursing home administrator, interviewed by inspectors at 9:30 in the morning on the day of the inspection, confirmed that admission paperwork is supposed to be reviewed with every resident upon arrival. Then the administrator confirmed that no documented evidence existed showing it had been done for Resident 63.
The facility's social service documentation was reviewed. Communications with the resident's family were reviewed. Neither contained what inspectors were looking for.
Inspectors classified the violation at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, the lower end of the scale. That classification reflects what can be measured after the fact. What it cannot account for is what Resident 63 did not know during his stay: that he had the right to dispute decisions about his care, that he could choose who provided his therapy, that there were defined rules about what would happen to his room if he ended up in the hospital, and that there were financial consequences attached to all of it.
He was cognitively intact. He was capable of understanding every one of those things. Nobody documented telling him.
The inspection covered only this single deficiency, and the facility's record shows it affected only one of the 17 residents whose files were reviewed. But the resident at the center of it came in with a spinal cord condition, spent weeks in the facility's care, and left without a paper trail showing he was ever treated as someone with the right to know the terms of his own admission.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Third Avenue Health & Rehab Center from 2026-03-27 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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THIRD AVENUE HEALTH & REHAB CENTER in KINGSTON, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on March 27, 2026.
That finding came out of a March 27, 2026 inspection at the 702 Third Avenue facility, which serves residents in the Kingston area.
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.