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The deficiency, cited under infection control, was one of 11 violations inspectors found when they visited the facility on September 5.

Avamere had not done it, or had not done it in any way inspectors could substantiate.

That was the finding federal health inspectors documented when they visited the facility on September 4, 2025, as part of a complaint inspection.

The assistant director of nursing told inspectors that morning that he had personally seen large water bugs inside the facility.

The inspection happened September 9, 2025.

That finding sits at the center of a September complaint inspection at the facility on Roberts Street, completed by federal surveyors on September 4, 2025.

Three days of pain records that simply did not exist.

When inspectors arrived on September 9, 2025, they reviewed the facility's housekeeping schedule and found it referenced halls 100, 200, 300, 500, and 700.

Federal health inspectors arrived at the Porterville nursing home on September 5, 2025, responding to a complaint.

Inspectors arrived at the facility on September 4, 2025, responding to a complaint.

The citation, issued September 5, 2025, was one of nine deficiencies inspectors documented during the visit.

The nurse, identified in inspection records only as RN #845, later confirmed to inspectors that she had not answered the call light.