Clearwater Nursing & Rehab: Care Plan Failures Cited - KS
Inspectors cited Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center for 16 separate deficiencies during a standard health inspection completed June 3. Among them: the facility failed to develop and implement complete care plans for its residents, plans that are supposed to spell out exactly what staff will do, and when, to address each person's needs.
Care plans are not paperwork for paperwork's sake. When a resident has a wound that needs monitoring, a care plan sets the schedule. When someone is at risk of falling, a care plan describes what precautions staff will take. When a resident's nutrition is declining, a care plan tracks it. Without one, or with an incomplete one, staff are left guessing, and residents are left exposed.
Inspectors classified the care planning deficiency as isolated, meaning they identified it in a limited number of residents rather than as a pattern running through the facility. They documented no actual harm. What they documented was the potential for more than minimal harm, which is the threshold that separates a technical paperwork lapse from a finding with real clinical weight.
That distinction matters. Potential for more than minimal harm is not a clean bill of health with a footnote. It is inspectors saying: something could go wrong here, and the systems to prevent it are not in place.
The care planning citation was one piece of a larger picture. Sixteen deficiencies in a single inspection is a significant number for a facility of any size. The full scope of what inspectors found across those 16 citations is not detailed in the summary record, but the volume alone signals a wide-ranging set of concerns.
What is detailed in the record is what the facility did next. Nothing. As of the inspection record reviewed, Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center had filed no plan of correction for the deficiencies cited.
Facilities cited for federal deficiencies are required to submit plans describing what they will do to address the problems inspectors found and when they will do it. A plan of correction is how a facility demonstrates it understands what went wrong and intends to fix it. The absence of one is not a bureaucratic gap. It is the facility's response to federal findings, and here, that response is silence.
The care planning deficiency falls under a category federal regulators describe as requiring facilities to develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. The emphasis on measurable actions and timetables exists for a reason. Vague intentions do not protect residents. Specific plans, assigned to specific staff, with specific deadlines, do.
When those plans are missing or incomplete, residents in a nursing home, people who by definition require enough assistance that they cannot safely live on their own, navigate their care without a documented roadmap. Staff may not know what interventions are authorized. Families may not know what to expect. And when something goes wrong, there is no record of what was supposed to happen.
Clearwater is a small city in Sumner County, roughly 20 miles south of Wichita. For residents of Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, many of whom likely have limited options for care elsewhere, the condition of this particular facility is not an abstraction.
The inspection record does not name any of the residents affected by the incomplete care plans. It does not describe what needs went unaddressed or what harm, if any, eventually followed from the gaps inspectors identified. What it records is a finding, a severity level, and a blank space where a plan of correction should be.
That blank space has not been filled.
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 5, 2026 · Our methodology
CLEARWATER NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER in CLEARWATER, KS was cited for violations during a health inspection on June 3, 2026.
Inspectors cited Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center for 16 separate deficiencies during a standard health inspection completed June 3.
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.