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Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation: Femur Fracture - NC
The resident at Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had fractured their femur....
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The resident at Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had fractured their femur....
The quality committee, known in nursing home regulatory language as the QAPI committee, had been assigned to monitor the fix....
What they found was that it had....
The same deficiency came back in May 2024....
Inspectors rated the violations as causing actual harm to residents, though only a few were affected....
She was still there, documented as a patient at the hospital, through at least April 24....
They had conducted the investigation together....
The Prevalon protective boots were not on their feet....
The resident, identified in the inspection report only as Resident #8, fractured her hip in the fall....
Those assessments, called MDS assessments, are the foundation of care in a nursing home....
The resident had been admitted on November 8, 2025....
Quality Life Services Westmont received that citation following a February 20, 2025 inspection....
The nurse, LPN #230, told inspectors he signed off without verifying the care was actually done and acknowledged that was not proper protocol....
The administrator, standing next to the lift at 10:37 that morning, confirmed the buckle was broken and could not be fastened....
That omission sits at the center of a complaint inspection completed May 26, 2026, at Broadway Manor Care Center, a skilled nursing facility in Glendale....
The care plan coordinator at Bria of Elmwood Park, identified in inspection records as V14, walked surveyors through the gaps herself....
A resident who fell, who became ill, who needed any help at all, would have had no way to signal staff from those rooms....
Both are formulated specifically to dissolve slowly inside the body....
The inspection took place on May 27, 2026....
The inspection that surfaced the problem was triggered by a complaint and conducted on May 27, 2026....