Aspen Meadows Health And Rehabilitation Center
ASPEN MEADOWS HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER in BILLINGS, MT — inspection on September 10, 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
Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure a resident who had medications left at bedside was assessed, and a physician's order was obtained for the safe self-administration of medications, for 1 (#5) of 7 sampled residents.
Findings include:During an observation and interview, on 9/9/25 at 7:14 a.m., staff member E prepared resident #5's medication and put them into a medication cup.
Staff member E opened resident #5's door and placed the medications in the resident's room on the bedside table.
Staff member E stated, She's (resident #5) sleeping, I leave them in there for her to take when she wakes up, most of the time she won't take them in front of me and says she will take them when she is ready to take them.
During an interview on 9/9/25 at 9:20 a.m., resident #5 stated, Staff often leave my medication in my room for me to take when I'm ready to take them.
Sometimes they will watch me take them, but not always.
During an interview on 9/9/25 at 3:25 p.m., staff member A stated it was not okay to leave medications at the bedside for residents unless they had been assessed for the self-administration of medications.Review of resident #5's electronic medical record failed to show a physician's order for the self-administration of medications and failed to show that a safety assessment had been completed to determine if resident #5 was safe to self-administer her own medications.Review of a facility document titled Medication Administration: Self-Administration by Resident, dated January 2023, showed: Policy: Residents who desire to self-administer medications are permitted to do so with a prescriber's order and if the nursing care center's interdisciplinary team has determined that the practice would be safe and the medications are appropriate and safe for self-administration.Procedures: 1. If the resident desires to self-administer medications, an assessment is conducted by the interdisciplinary team of the resident's cognitive, physical, and visual ability to carry out this responsibility, during the care planning process. [sic]
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LABORATORY DIRECTOR'S OR PROVIDER/SUPPLIER REPRESENTATIVE'S SIGNATURE
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Aspen Meadows Health and Rehabilitation Center
3155 Ave C Billings, MT 59102
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES
During an interview on 9/10/25 at 7:24 a.m., staff member A stated, I cannot find a policy on lifts and have reviewed the manuals and cannot find where it says how many people it should take to use them.
Staff member A said she had watched a video about the lift they have, and in the video, it showed one person using the Hoyer lift.
Staff member A stated she would still require two people to use the Hoyer lifts as she feels it is safest. A facility policy on lift use was requested on 9/8/25 at 3:52 p.m., and no lift use policy was received from the facility by the end of the survey.
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