Hawthorne Center Rehabilitation: PASARR Screening Failure - FL
Inspectors cited Hawthorne Center for Rehabilitation and Healing for the failure during a standard health inspection on May 29, 2026. The screening process at issue, known as PASARR, is designed to ensure that residents who have mental illness or intellectual disabilities are identified before or shortly after admission so their care plans can account for those needs. Without it, a resident's psychiatric or cognitive condition can go unaddressed for the duration of their stay.
The deficiency was classified as an isolated incident with no documented actual harm, but inspectors determined there was potential for more than minimal harm to residents.
That distinction matters. A resident admitted to a skilled nursing facility with an unrecognized mental health condition may not receive appropriate therapy, medication management, or behavioral support. The screening exists precisely because those needs don't announce themselves, and facilities that skip it are making a quiet bet that nothing will go wrong.
Hawthorne Center had not filed a plan of correction at the time inspectors completed their report.
The PASARR citation was one of nine deficiencies inspectors documented during the same visit. The inspection report does not detail the other eight findings, but nine citations in a single standard survey represents a facility with compliance problems across multiple areas of care.
The absence of a correction plan is its own signal. Most facilities, even those that contest a finding, submit some response indicating how and when they intend to address the cited deficiency. Hawthorne Center had not done so.
The facility's full name as listed in federal records is Hawthorne Center for Rehabilitation and Healing of Ocala. It operates as a rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility serving residents who, by definition, often arrive with complex medical and psychiatric histories. Rehabilitation patients frequently come from hospital stays following strokes, falls, or surgeries, and mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment are common in that population. Those are precisely the residents the PASARR process is built to catch.
What the screening requires is not complicated in concept. Before or shortly after a Medicaid-eligible resident is admitted to a nursing facility, the facility must determine whether that person has a mental disorder or intellectual disability that warrants further evaluation or specialized services. If the screening is skipped or done improperly, the facility proceeds without that baseline, and the resident's care plan is built on an incomplete picture.
Inspectors rated this deficiency at Scope and Severity Level D, the lowest tier of harm on the federal scale, meaning the problem was isolated rather than widespread and caused no documented injury. That rating does not mean the lapse was trivial. Level D citations still represent a failure that federal inspectors determined carried real risk.
Nine deficiencies in a single inspection, a missing correction plan, and a screening failure that sits at the foundation of how a facility is supposed to understand who its residents are, that is the record Hawthorne Center carried out of its May inspection.
For any resident admitted to Hawthorne Center with a mental health condition or intellectual disability that was never properly screened, the question is not whether the paperwork was filed correctly. The question is whether anyone at the facility knew what that person needed, and whether the care they received reflected it.
The inspection report does not answer that.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Hawthorne Center For Rehabilitation and Healing Of from 2026-05-29 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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HAWTHORNE CENTER FOR REHABILITATION AND HEALING OF in OCALA, FL was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 29, 2026.
Inspectors cited Hawthorne Center for Rehabilitation and Healing for the failure during a standard health inspection on May 29, 2026.
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.