Loyalhanna Care Center: Nursing Services Violations - PA
The citation, recorded during a health inspection completed March 20, 2025, was issued under Pennsylvania state code governing nursing services. Inspectors classified the level of harm as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, a designation that means the deficiency either injured residents in a limited way or created conditions where more serious harm could have followed.
The violation involved nursing services provided to residents at the facility, located at 535 McFarland Road in Latrobe. Inspectors noted that some residents were affected, a classification that typically means more than one but not all of the facility's residents were touched by the deficient practice.
Loyalhanna Care Center is a licensed nursing facility operating in Westmoreland County, roughly 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The inspection was conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency responsible for oversight of nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.
The deficiency was cited under 28 Pa. Code 211.12(d)(5), the section of Pennsylvania's nursing home regulations that addresses the obligations of nursing staff to residents. That provision falls within the broader framework of nursing services requirements that govern how facilities must staff, supervise, and deliver care to the people living in them.
CMS assigns a level of harm to each deficiency it documents. The lowest level is no actual harm with potential for minimal harm. Above that is no actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm. The citation issued at Loyalhanna fell into the category of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, placing it in the middle range, above a purely technical finding but below the threshold of actual serious injury.
What the inspection report does not reveal, at least in the portion available, is the specific conduct that led to the citation. The statement of deficiencies form that federal inspectors use to record their findings was not fully captured in the available documentation. The narrative cuts off before the inspectors' written description of what they observed, what staff said, and what records showed.
That absence matters. The statement of deficiencies is where inspectors document the specific incidents, the dates, the staff involved, the residents affected, and the conditions they found. Without it, what remains is a citation code, a harm level, and the knowledge that some residents at Loyalhanna were affected.
CMS requires nursing homes to submit a plan of correction in response to each cited deficiency. The plan must describe what the facility did to fix the immediate problem, what it will do to prevent recurrence, and how it will monitor compliance going forward. The agency that conducted the survey, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, is responsible for reviewing that plan and verifying that corrections are made.
Loyalhanna Care Center has not been identified in this inspection as a facility facing the most serious federal enforcement categories. The March 2025 inspection did not produce a finding of immediate jeopardy, which is the designation CMS uses when a deficiency has caused or is likely to cause serious injury or death. The nursing services citation stands as the documented finding from this survey cycle.
For residents and families at Loyalhanna, the citation represents an official finding that something in the delivery of nursing services fell short of what state and federal standards require. Whether that shortfall was a lapse in documentation, a gap in care delivery, or something else entirely, the available record does not say.
The full statement of deficiencies is a public document. Families with residents at Loyalhanna Care Center can request the complete inspection report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health or access it through the CMS Care Compare website, where the facility's inspection history is posted.
What happened to the residents described only as "some" in the inspection record remains, in the available documentation, unnamed and unresolved.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Loyalhanna Care Center from 2025-03-20 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
Corrections may have occurred: Inspection reports reflect conditions observed on the date of the survey. Facilities may have implemented corrections, staffing changes, additional training, or other remediation since the report was issued. We report what CMS provides and encourage readers to seek current information from the facility.
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LOYALHANNA CARE CENTER in LATROBE, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on March 20, 2025.
The citation, recorded during a health inspection completed March 20, 2025, was issued under Pennsylvania state code governing nursing services.
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.