Nursing Home News — Page 232

Nutrition failures in nursing homes rarely announce themselves loudly.

The violation was cited under a federal standard requiring facilities to treat residents with dignity.

The specific finding: the facility failed to respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

A pattern means inspectors found the problem in more than one place, or more than one instance, or both.

The facility's own program, called the Falling Star Program, lays out exactly what should happen when a resident is identified as a fall risk.

The nurse, identified in inspection records only as LVN 1, was hired on May 14, 2025.

The citation, issued September 9, 2025, followed a complaint investigation at the Albuquerque nursing home.

The September 2025 inspection found that the facility had failed to upload required PASRR Nursing Facility Specialized Services forms on time.

Federal health inspectors visited Momentum at South Bay for Rehabilitation and Nursing in September and found exactly that problem.

The citation, issued September 10, 2025, falls under the category of Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies.

The citation, issued September 9, 2025, falls under a category of deficiencies governing resident rights.

The violation falls under a category called Resident Rights.