Harbour Health Center
HARBOUR HEALTH CENTER in PORT CHARLOTTE, FL — inspection on December 30, 2025.
Found 1 citation. Severity: Standard violations.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct within required timeframes. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns and are subject to follow-up verification.
Inspection Findings
orders for Resident #1 had been shredded.
She said sometime around July an Interim Director of Nursing (DON) told her there would be no paper charts going forward and told her to shred the residents' records.
Staff B said she shredded residents' records from July 2025 through October 2025 until the Administrator told her not to shred residents' records.
She said there was no record of the medical records that were destroyed.On 12/30/25 at 2:30 p.m., in an interview the Director of Nursing (DON) said that she could not find any documentation or evidence that the nurse called the physician to verify Resident #1's admission orders.
She said no progress note was written and Medical Record Coordinator Staff B shredded Resident #1's original hospital discharge orders.
The DON said it was not the facility's current practice to shred residents' medical records.
She said a prior interim DON had asked Staff B to shred the documents.On 12/30/25 at 4:30 p.m., in an interview, the Administrator said he was not aware until today that medical records were being shredded.
Staff B told him she was following orders. He said, Shredding medical records is not our practice.
The Administrator said they have to look at proper destruction procedures and the whole medical record retention process.
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