Regency Care Center
Regency Care Center in Norwalk, IA — inspection on December 30, 2025.
Found 2 citations. 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
During the exit meeting at 2:03 PM she indicated the MDS fixed the issue.
The Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) stated around that time there was talk of Resident #2 discharging home but the family realized that was not going to be an option.The facility provided a document titled Conducting an Accurate Resident Assessment.
The purpose of this policy is to assure that all residents receive an accurate assessment, reflective of the resident's status at the time of the assessment, by staff qualified to assess relevant care areas.
Accuracy of assessment means that the appropriate, qualified health professionals correctly document the resident's medical, functional, and psychosocial problems and identify resident strengths to maintain or improve medical status, functional abilities, and psychosocial status using the appropriate Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) (i.e. comprehensive, quarterly, significant change in status).Policy Explanation and Compliance Guidelines:2.
Qualified staff who are knowledgeable about the resident will conduct an accurate assessmentaddressing each resident's status, needs, strengths, and areas of decline.
The assessment will bedocumented in the medical record. 7. A registered nurse will sign and certify that the assessment/correction request is completed.
Each individual who completes a portion of the assessment will sign and certify the accuracy of that portion of the assessment.
Whether the MDS assessments are manually completed, or computer-generated following data entry, each individual assessor is responsible for certifying the accuracy of responses relative to the resident's condition and discharge or entry status.
Any deficiency statement ending with an asterisk (*) denotes a deficiency which the institution may be excused from correcting providing it is determined that other safeguards provide sufficient protection to the patients. (See instructions.) Except for nursing homes, the findings stated above are disclosable 90 days following the date of survey whether or not a plan of correction is provided.
For nursing homes, the above findings and plans of correction are disclosable 14 days following the date these documents are made available to the facility. If deficiencies are cited, an approved plan of correction is requisite to continued program participation.
LABORATORY DIRECTOR'S OR PROVIDER/SUPPLIER REPRESENTATIVE'S SIGNATURE
TITLE
Facility ID:
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER:
A.
Building
COMPLETED
12/30/2025
STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
Regency Care Center
815 High Road Norwalk, IA 50211
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
assessed at risk or who have a pressure injury present.
Basic or routine care interventions could include, but are not limited to: i.
Redistribute pressure (such as repositioning, protecting and/or offloading heels, etc.); f.
Interventions will be documented in the care plan and communicated to all relevant staff. g.
Compliance with interventions will be documented in the weekly summary charting. 6.
Modifications of Interventions b.
Interventions on a resident's plan of care will be modified as needed.
Considerations for needed modifications include: i.
Changes in resident's degree of risk for developing a pressure injury. ii.
New onset or recurrent pressure injury development. iii.
Lack of progression towards healing. iv.
Resident non-compliance. v.
Changes in the resident's goals and preferences, such as at end-of-life or in accordance with his/her rights.
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