Scenic Hills at the Monastery: Nutrition Failures - IN
The resident, identified in inspection records as Resident 48, had a physician's order for a magic cup, a high-calorie nutritional supplement, with both lunch and dinner. When inspectors reviewed her meal trays, the magic cup wasn't there. The food itself was covered in cellophane and had not been touched. Nobody had documented why.
On the morning of May 20, a certified nurse aide weighed the resident using a chair scale. The resident asked whether she should remove her sweater before being weighed. The aide told her it didn't matter. A note affixed to the scale instructed staff to press a reweigh button once the resident was seated and stable. The aide did not press it. She recorded the weight as 108.0 pounds anyway.
When inspectors asked the aide about the resident's weight monitoring, she said Resident 48 wasn't on any special weight list. Nurses would tell aides when a weight was needed, she explained, and the aide would either report the number verbally or write it on a form for the nurse to document.
An LPN interviewed earlier that same morning said she would try to weigh the resident after breakfast, then added that it didn't really matter when the weighing happened.
The Director of Nursing, interviewed the following day, said staff should be weighing residents monitored closely for weight changes first thing in the morning, before breakfast, not after. She also said the chair scale would still give an accurate reading even without pressing the reweigh button. That contradicted the written instruction posted directly on the scale.
She could not explain why the resident's order had never been updated to require weekly weights.
The supplement problem ran deeper than a single missed tray. When a medication aide passed Resident 48 her medications on the morning of May 20, MedPass, another nutritional supplement the resident was supposed to receive alongside her medications, was not in the room and was not given. The aide moved on.
The Director of Nursing described how the supplement system was supposed to work: the magic cup would come from the kitchen with the tray, MedPass would come from nursing staff during medication rounds, and bedtime snacks would be offered around 8 p.m., with some residents preferring them at 10. Aides were supposed to document consumption in a point-of-care system. Nurses were supposed to document in the medication administration record when a supplement with a specific order had been given. Staff were only supposed to chart after the supplement had actually been provided and consumed.
None of that had happened consistently for Resident 48.
The facility's own written policies, provided to inspectors on May 22 by the Executive Director, stated that residents' weights would be taken and recorded monthly unless a physician ordered otherwise, and that nutritional supplements would be provided as needed to maintain acceptable nutritional status. The policies carried no date.
What the policies described and what inspectors observed over three days at Scenic Hills were not the same thing. A resident with a documented order for supplemental nutrition went without it. A scale was used incorrectly. A nurse said timing didn't matter. A director couldn't account for why monitoring hadn't been stepped up.
Resident 48 sat at her bedside table that morning, eating breakfast, while the people responsible for tracking her nutritional health moved through their routines without the information they were supposed to be collecting.
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SCENIC HILLS AT THE MONASTERY in FERDINAND, IN was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 22, 2026.
When inspectors reviewed her meal trays, the magic cup wasn't there.
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