New London Sub-Acute: Fluid Restriction Failures - CT
A resident at New London Sub-Acute and Nursing was under a physician-ordered fluid restriction of 1,200 cubic centimeters per day, a limit that carries real consequences when ignored. Between February 1 and March 17, 2025, that resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident #66, exceeded the limit 15 times. On March 17 alone, the intake reached 2,550 cc, more than twice the ordered maximum.
The overages were not small rounding errors. On February 13, the resident took in 1,680 cc, 480 cc over the limit. On March 4, it was 1,620 cc, 420 over. On March 5, 1,500 cc, 300 over. The numbers were being recorded. They were sitting in the facility's intake logs. Nobody added them up, and nobody acted.
When inspectors interviewed RN Supervisor #1 on March 19, she said she was unaware Resident #66 had exceeded the restriction 15 times. She acknowledged the resident had been "non-compliant" with the fluid limit, but said monitoring the intake was not her responsibility. She pointed to the dietician and the Assistant Director of Nursing Services. She pointed to the evening shift for totaling the daily numbers.
The Assistant Director of Nursing Services, interviewed the same morning, said she also had no idea the resident had gone over the limit, not once, not fifteen times. She was the person designated to receive the 24-hour intake totals once the evening shift compiled them. She could not explain why she hadn't known. She could not explain why no one had notified anyone when the numbers came in high.
The second RN supervisor, interviewed the following afternoon, wasn't sure which shift was actually responsible for totaling the daily intake. She thought it was the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift, but allowed it might be the overnight crew. She wasn't sure whether the overnight supervisor ever received the totals at all.
The Director of Nursing and the facility administrator, interviewed together on March 20, confirmed that the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift was supposed to total the daily intake and pass those figures to the Assistant Director of Nursing. The Director of Nursing could not explain why the totals hadn't been calculated, and could not explain why no one had flagged the overages across seven weeks.
The facility's own intake and output policy, dated June 2023, directed staff to maintain accurate intake records and specified that the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. nurse was responsible for the daily totals. The policy existed. The responsibility was assigned on paper. The work did not get done.
What the inspection record does not say is what the repeated overages meant for Resident #66's health. Fluid restrictions are typically ordered for residents whose bodies cannot safely process excess fluid, often because of heart failure, kidney disease, or dialysis dependence. The facility dietician told inspectors she coordinated the resident's fluid restriction and weight monitoring with a hemolytic treatment center dietician, a detail that suggests the stakes of the limit were understood by at least one person. That person, apparently, was not part of the chain responsible for catching the daily numbers.
Inspectors cited the violation at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, affecting a small number of residents. The citation is among the lower tiers of federal deficiency classifications.
What it describes, though, is a monitoring system that failed at every level it touched. The nurse who tallied the numbers didn't flag them. The supervisor who was supposed to receive them didn't ask for them. The administrator didn't know they weren't coming. And for 47 days, Resident #66's intake log recorded the overages in plain figures that no one in a position to act ever read.
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NEW LONDON SUB-ACUTE AND NURSING in WATERFORD, CT was cited for violations during a health inspection on March 27, 2025.
Between February 1 and March 17, 2025, that resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident #66, exceeded the limit 15 times.
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