Clearwater Nursing & Rehab: 16 Deficiencies, No Fix Plan - KS
That detail, buried in the administrative paperwork, is the one that matters most. A nursing home that won't say how it plans to fix its problems is a nursing home that hasn't decided it has any.
One of those 16 citations targeted something foundational: the facility had no functioning plan describing how it conducts its Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement activities, what federal regulators track under tag F0865. QAPI, as it's known in the industry, is the internal system a nursing home uses to catch its own problems before inspectors do. It is, in theory, how a facility knows whether its residents are declining, whether its medication errors are trending up, whether its falls are preventable or becoming routine.
Clearwater didn't have a documented process for any of that.
Inspectors rated the violation at Scope/Severity Level E, meaning they found a pattern, not an isolated incident, and they found potential for more than minimal harm to residents. No actual harm was documented in connection with this specific deficiency. But the logic of the violation is circular in a way that should concern anyone with a family member inside: a facility without a working quality oversight system is a facility that may not know what harm is occurring, which makes the "no actual harm documented" finding harder to lean on than it sounds.
The citation describes the deficiency as a failure to "have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities." That language is dry. What it means in practice is that the people running Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center could not show inspectors a coherent, documented method for reviewing whether care was working or failing. Quality Assurance and Assessment, the QAA component, requires a committee to meet regularly, identify problems, and develop corrective actions. QAPI expands that into a data-driven, ongoing improvement process. Together, they represent the minimum internal accountability structure a nursing home is expected to maintain.
Clearwater's version of that structure, whatever it looked like, didn't meet the standard.
Fifteen other deficiencies were cited during the same inspection. The report doesn't detail all of them in the narrative provided, but the number alone signals that the quality oversight failure wasn't happening in isolation. When a facility accumulates 16 citations in a single standard inspection, the absence of an internal quality process starts to look less like a paperwork gap and more like an explanation.
The correction status listed for the F0865 deficiency is unambiguous: deficient, provider has no plan of correction. That status applies, according to the inspection record, across the board. Sixteen citations. No corrections submitted.
Nursing homes that receive deficiency citations are required to submit plans of correction describing what they will do to address each finding, by what date, and how they will monitor for ongoing compliance. Those plans are reviewed by the state survey agency. When a facility submits nothing, the regulatory process stalls. Residents remain in a facility that has been formally found deficient and has not committed, on paper, to changing anything.
Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center serves residents in a small Kansas city of roughly 2,500 people. For many of those residents, and for families who may not have other nearby options, the facility's inspection record is the primary public window into what's happening inside.
That window, right now, shows a facility that was cited 16 times, found to be operating without a documented quality oversight system, and responded to the entire inspection by filing nothing.
The inspectors have come and gone. The citations are on record. Whether anything changes inside Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, for the people who live there, remains an open question with no answer yet attached to it.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center from 2026-06-03 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: Official federal inspection data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Last verified: August 2, 2026 · Our methodology
CLEARWATER NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER in CLEARWATER, KS was cited for violations during a health inspection on June 3, 2026.
That detail, buried in the administrative paperwork, is the one that matters most.
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.