Clearwater Nursing & Rehab: Survey Access Failures - KS
Federal health inspectors cited Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center on June 3, 2026, for failing to allow residents to easily view the facility's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies. The deficiency falls under resident rights, the category of nursing home regulation that governs what residents are entitled to know and who they are allowed to reach. As of the inspection's completion, the facility had submitted no plan of correction.
That last detail is worth pausing on. Every other deficiency cited during a federal inspection typically comes with at least a paper commitment, a date by which the problem will be addressed and a description of how. Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center offered none.
The violation was one of 16 deficiencies cited during the same inspection. Inspectors classified this particular finding as a pattern, meaning it was not an isolated incident involving a single resident on a single day. The problem repeated. Inspectors also determined there was potential for more than minimal harm, though no actual harm was documented.
What inspectors found was a failure around access: residents could not easily view the facility's survey results, and the path to communicating with advocate agencies was not clear or open to them. Survey results are the formal inspection records that document exactly the kinds of violations found during inspections like this one. They are among the most direct tools a resident or family member has for understanding whether the facility they live in is meeting basic standards of care. Advocate agencies, sometimes called long-term care ombudsmen, exist specifically to hear complaints from nursing home residents who may not feel safe raising concerns with staff or management.
When a facility makes either of those things difficult, residents are left without the information they need to ask questions and without a clear route to the people who exist to help them ask those questions.
The residents living at Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center on the day of that inspection were not, according to inspectors, in a position to easily do either.
Clearwater, Kansas is a small city of roughly 2,500 people in Sedgwick County, south of Wichita. Facilities in communities like this one often serve as the only skilled nursing option within a reasonable distance for residents and families. That geography matters when residents are trying to weigh their options, or when families are trying to understand what kind of care their loved ones are receiving. Access to inspection records is one of the few concrete tools available to people who are not medical professionals and who are trying to make those judgments from the outside.
The scope and severity classification assigned to this deficiency, a "C" on the federal scale, indicates a pattern of the same deficiency across multiple residents or multiple instances, at a level inspectors determined carried potential for more than minimal harm. It is not the most severe category available. Federal inspectors reserve higher severity levels for cases involving actual harm or immediate jeopardy to resident health and safety. But a pattern-level finding in the category of resident rights carries a particular weight, because the right being denied is the right to know.
Sixteen deficiencies in a single inspection is a substantial number. The survey access finding is one piece of a larger picture that inspectors documented at this facility in early June.
What is not in that picture, at least not yet, is any written commitment from the facility about when or how residents will be able to see the records they are entitled to see, or reach the advocates they are entitled to reach. The inspection finding sits open. The correction status remains deficient. The residents at Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center are still there.
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.
As of the inspection's completion, the facility had submitted no plan of correction.
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.