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Not a medication scheduling lapse....
Latest reports, citations, and penalties from CMS data
Not a medication scheduling lapse....
The inspection, completed August 29, 2025, examined a complaint about the facility at 297 Stoner Avenue....
The citation, issued under a regulatory category covering quality of life and care, is the kind that rarely makes headlines....
Inspectors cited the facility on August 29, 2025 for failing to provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and failing to prevent new ulcers from developing....
The result was an injury that inspectors classified as causing actual harm, not merely potential harm....
The citation was one of 13 deficiencies inspectors documented during the August 29 complaint inspection....
Without a complete care plan, nurses and aides are working without a map....
The inspection found the deficiency was isolated in scope....
Inspectors determined the facility had not met that requirement....
Inspectors classified the violation under the resident rights category, a designation that reflects something beyond a paperwork failure....
Respiratory care failures carry a particular weight in a post-acute setting....
Inspectors determined, however, that the potential for more than minimal harm existed....
Pain in nursing home residents can surface in ways that don't announce themselves....
The drug was tacrolimus, an immunosuppressant used to prevent the body from rejecting a transplanted organ....
One of those citations targeted something fundamental: whether the facility was actually building complete care plans for the people living there....
It belongs to the people who live there....
But the classification also carries a specific warning built into its definition: the potential for more than minimal harm existed....
When the facility's Director of Social Services started her job in January 2025, she inherited a notebook....
The violation was classified at Scope and Severity Level D, meaning it was isolated in scope and involved no documented actual harm....
The inspection, completed September 2, 2025, was triggered by a complaint....