Clearwater Nursing & Rehab: Respiratory Care Failure - KS
The citation, recorded under federal tag F0695, found that the facility had failed to provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for residents who needed it. Inspectors classified the violation as isolated, meaning it did not appear to be a widespread pattern across the facility. They also noted no actual harm had occurred. But they were clear that the potential for more than minimal harm existed.
That distinction matters. In nursing homes, "no actual harm" does not mean nothing happened. It means no one documented an injury. Residents who depend on oxygen, ventilators, nebulizers, or other respiratory equipment are among the most medically fragile in any long-term care setting. A lapse in that care, even a brief one, can tip into a medical emergency before staff recognize what is happening.
What exactly inspectors found at Clearwater, the specific equipment involved, which residents were affected, what staff did or failed to do, none of that appears in the publicly available summary. The inspection report narrative is thin. What it does tell us is that the problem was real enough to cite, and that the facility, as of the inspection date, had submitted no plan of correction.
That last fact is worth sitting with.
When a nursing home receives a deficiency citation, it is expected to respond with a written plan explaining what went wrong, what steps will be taken to fix it, and by what date. That plan is not optional. It is the mechanism by which regulators and the public are supposed to know that a facility has acknowledged a problem and intends to address it. Clearwater had not done that.
Sixteen deficiencies in a single inspection is not a minor showing. It suggests inspectors moved through this facility and found problems in room after room, policy after policy, practice after practice. The respiratory care citation was one thread in that larger fabric.
Clearwater is a small city in south-central Kansas, about 20 miles south of Wichita. The nursing home that bears its name serves residents who, by definition, cannot simply leave when care falls short. They are there because they need help, sometimes with the most basic functions of staying alive, including breathing.
Respiratory care in a nursing home setting covers a wide range of interventions. A resident with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may require scheduled nebulizer treatments. A resident recovering from pneumonia may need supplemental oxygen maintained at a specific flow rate. A resident on a ventilator requires continuous monitoring and trained staff who know what to do when alarms sound. When any part of that system breaks down, whether it is equipment not checked, treatments not given, or staff not trained, the resident on the receiving end of that failure has no way to compensate on their own.
The federal rating system for nursing homes is built in part on inspection results like these. Facilities that accumulate deficiencies, particularly in care categories, can see their star ratings fall. Families researching placement options use those ratings. So do hospital discharge planners deciding where to send a patient after surgery or a stroke.
What those ratings cannot fully capture is the experience of the resident in the bed, waiting for a treatment that may or may not arrive on time, in a facility that, when asked by federal inspectors to account for its respiratory care practices, came up short, and then, when asked to explain how it planned to do better, said nothing at all.
The inspection was completed on June 3, 2026. The deficiency remains open.
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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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.
Inspectors classified the violation as isolated, meaning it did not appear to be a widespread pattern across the facility.
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.