Nursing Home News — Page 208

Inspectors visiting Auburn Skilled Nursing and Rehab on September 2, 2025, found Resident #12 sitting in her wheelchair in her room, not in the recliner.

The citation, classified under F0732, identified the lapse as affecting some residents at the facility.

Accidental access becomes possible.

The citation, issued September 4, 2025, fell under a federal category that requires facilities to keep residents free from significant medication errors.

The resident needed Faslodex, an injection used to treat certain hormone receptor-positive breast cancers.

In the language of federal nursing home oversight, "potential for more than minimal harm" is the floor, not the ceiling.

The inspection, completed September 4, 2025, was triggered by a complaint.

That absence is itself a story.

One of those citations involved something basic: water.

For nursing home residents, who are often elderly, often cognitively impaired, often approaching the end of their lives, those documents are not paperwork.

Nobody answered for 20 minutes.

He could not produce a sign-in sheet.