Cedar Ridge Inn: Wound Care Failure Sends Resident to Hospital - NM
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 10, was a patient at Cedar Ridge Inn on Saguaro Trail. His family member told inspectors she first noticed the wound on July 18, 2025. She said she talked to nursing staff repeatedly as it worsened. On August 5, she went directly to the Director of Nursing and showed her a picture.
The DON told inspectors the wound was red and hot when she saw it that day, and she suspected infection. She got a specialist consult, orders were changed, and antibiotics started on August 6. The resident was in the hospital by August 11.
The facility's Medical Director told inspectors on August 27 that he did not remember when he was notified about the wound. He said he was usually in the building every week. He acknowledged he was aware of it before the resident was hospitalized, and said he expected staff to notify him of any change in condition, including worsening wounds. He could not say whether they had.
The wound care nurse practitioner saw Resident 10 for the first time on August 7, two days after the DON's intervention. She described what she found as an unstageable pressure wound covered entirely in dry eschar. She said the facility had already ordered Santyl, which was the treatment she would have recommended. A wound culture was not possible because of the eschar. She never saw the resident again. He was gone to the hospital before her next visit.
The DON told inspectors she should have been notified sooner, even though she had been out of the building. Nobody had called her.
The family member had been watching for three weeks before anyone with authority to change the treatment plan saw the wound. The resident spent those weeks at Cedar Ridge Inn while the infection took hold.
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Cedar Ridge Inn in Farmington, NM was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 27, 2025.
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 10, was a patient at Cedar Ridge Inn on Saguaro Trail.
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