LECOM at Snyder Memorial: Care Plan Failures - PA
The deficiency, cited during a standard health inspection on May 29, 2026, fell under the category of resident assessment and care planning. Inspectors determined the facility failed to develop complete care plans within the required window after comprehensive assessments, and that the plans were not being properly prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals as required.
The violation was classified as isolated, with no actual harm documented. But inspectors noted the potential for more than minimal harm to residents.
That distinction matters. A care plan is not paperwork for its own sake. It is the document that coordinates a resident's entire care — what medications they take, what their fall risk looks like, what their dietary needs are, how their pain should be managed, what their cognitive status requires from staff. When it is incomplete, delayed, or assembled without the input of the full care team, the people responsible for carrying it out are working without a complete picture. A nurse coming on shift, a physical therapist, a dietary aide — they rely on that document. Without it, or with a version that hasn't been properly built, gaps open.
LECOM at Snyder Memorial was cited for six deficiencies total during the May inspection. The care planning failure was one of them. The inspection report does not detail the others.
What it does note is this: as of the inspection, the facility had filed no plan of correction for any of the deficiencies cited. Not for the care planning violation. Not for the others. The correction status for this deficiency reads simply: deficient, provider has no plan of correction.
That is not a bureaucratic footnote. When a nursing home receives a deficiency citation, it is expected to respond — to identify what went wrong, explain how it will be fixed, and commit to a timeline. The absence of a plan of correction means, as of the date of this report, the facility has not done that. It has not told regulators what it intends to change.
LECOM at Snyder Memorial is located in Marienville, a small borough in Forest County in northwestern Pennsylvania. Forest County is among the most rural counties in the state, with limited options for families seeking long-term care for aging relatives. For many residents of the facility, and for the families who placed them there, there may not be a closer alternative.
The care planning deficiency on its own sits at the lower end of the federal severity scale. No resident was documented as harmed. Inspectors did not describe a resident who fell through the cracks because their plan was late, or who received the wrong intervention because their team hadn't properly coordinated. The record, as written, stops at potential.
But potential is the word inspectors use when they find a system that has already failed once and could fail again. The care plan isn't built after something goes wrong. It's built so something doesn't.
The facility's silence on correction is the harder question. Six deficiencies, and no response on record. Inspectors will return. Whether anything changes before they do is not something the inspection report can answer.
For the residents of LECOM at Snyder Memorial — people who came to this facility in Marienville because they needed help, because their families needed help, because there were no other good options in Forest County — the care plan is one of the few formal guarantees that the people caring for them know what they need. When it's incomplete, or late, or built without the right voices in the room, that guarantee frays.
The inspection record does not name any of those residents. It does not say how many were affected, or for how long, or what was missing from their plans. It says only that the system failed, and that as of May 29, 2026, no one at the facility had written down how they planned to fix it.
Full Inspection Report
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Last verified: August 6, 2026 · Our methodology
LECOM AT SNYDER MEMORIAL in MARIENVILLE, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 29, 2026.
The deficiency, cited during a standard health inspection on May 29, 2026, fell under the category of resident assessment and care planning.
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.