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Assessments are the foundation.

The violation was rated at the lowest level of harm, with few residents affected.

The deficiency, one of 14 cited during the September 10 inspection, fell under the category of resident assessment and care planning.

Federal health inspectors cited the facility in September for failing to develop complete care plans within seven days of a comprehensive resident assessment.

on September 5, thirteen staff members and eleven residents walked by the open cart on what the inspection report identifies only as a named hall.

A drug that isn't needed can still cause real damage.

That means they depend entirely on staff to bathe them, to move them, to do everything.

Elizabeth Healthcare Center on North Harbor Boulevard, pressed her call light at 6:30 a.m.

Inspectors classified it as an isolated failure with no documented harm, but with potential for more than minimal harm to the people living there.

That phrase appears in inspection reports with some regularity, and it is worth pausing on what it means and what it doesn't.

At Midtown Oaks Health & Rehab Center, federal inspectors found that foundation was cracked.

The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident R1, was living with dementia, high blood pressure, and difficulty swallowing.