Autumn Woods Health Campus: Infection Control Failures - IN
The citation, issued May 1, 2026, covered one of two deficiencies inspectors recorded during a standard health inspection of the New Albany nursing home. The violation fell under the category of infection control deficiencies, the kind of finding that tends to surface when a facility's problems aren't isolated slip-ups but something more embedded in how the place operates day to day.
Inspectors assigned the deficiency a scope and severity level of E. On the federal scale used to grade nursing home violations, that means inspectors observed a pattern of the same problem, not a one-time lapse, and concluded that while no resident had been actually harmed, the conditions created potential for more than minimal harm. The distinction between "isolated" and "pattern" matters. Isolated suggests someone made a mistake. Pattern suggests the mistake kept happening, and nobody stopped it.
The specific regulatory tag cited was F0880, which covers the requirement that a nursing home provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. The word "implement" carries weight in that standard. A facility can have binders full of infection control policies. It can have a designated infection control nurse. It can have training logs and hand hygiene posters on every wall. The citation says Autumn Woods fell short not of having a program, but of running one that actually worked in practice.
The inspection report released through federal records does not detail what inspectors observed on the floor. It does not name the specific lapses, whether they involved hand hygiene, isolation procedures, equipment cleaning, wound care, or something else. What the record shows is that inspectors saw enough of a recurring problem to elevate the finding from isolated to pattern.
That distinction carries consequences. A pattern finding at level E means inspectors believed the same infection control failure was happening across multiple residents or multiple occasions, and that the exposure created real, if unrealized, risk. Nursing homes house some of the most medically vulnerable people in any community, residents whose immune systems are often compromised, who share staff, shared spaces, and shared equipment. An infection that a younger, healthier person might shake off can send a nursing home resident to the hospital, or worse.
Autumn Woods submitted a plan of correction and reported the deficiency corrected by May 11, 2026, ten days after the inspection ended. Federal records reflect that self-reported correction date, though CMS does not independently verify a facility's claimed correction date at the time of submission.
The facility received two total deficiencies during the May inspection. The inspection report does not describe the second deficiency in the materials provided. The infection control citation was the more serious of the two by scope, given its pattern designation.
Autumn Woods Health Campus has not faced an immediate jeopardy finding, the most severe category of federal nursing home violation, based on the records from this inspection. The May citation stopped short of that threshold. But pattern-level infection control failures occupy uncomfortable middle ground in federal oversight: serious enough that inspectors felt compelled to note the recurrence, not serious enough to trigger the fastest enforcement response.
For residents living at Autumn Woods, and for family members trying to assess what that May inspection actually means, the honest answer is that the public record is thin. Inspectors found something happening repeatedly that could have hurt people. Nobody was hurt, as far as the record shows. The facility says it fixed the problem in ten days.
What the program looked like before May 1, and what it looks like now, is not something the inspection report answers.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Autumn Woods Health Campus from 2026-05-01 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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AUTUMN WOODS HEALTH CAMPUS in NEW ALBANY, IN was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 1, 2026.
The citation, issued May 1, 2026, covered one of two deficiencies inspectors recorded during a standard health inspection of the New Albany nursing home.
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.