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LPN E told the inspector that a blood sugar over 400 would prompt a physician call.

The incident occurred on September 19, 2025.

The inspection, completed October 29, 2025, documented what a surveyor watched firsthand.

The resident, identified in inspection records only as R1, is oriented to person only and frequently gets up without calling for help.

Narcan exists for one purpose: to keep someone alive when an opioid has stopped their breathing or sent them into crisis.

The resident, identified in inspection records as R1, had been placed in a high back wheelchair.

Federal inspectors who visited Avir at Lindale on October 29, 2025, found that promise wasn't being kept.

What they found was a program that existed on paper and, in significant stretches, nowhere else.

The Director of Nursing wasn't told.

The inspection took place on October 30, 2025, during a complaint survey.

At Perry Lutheran, it is not optional.

That gap is at the center of a November 2025 federal inspection finding against the Oak Lane Avenue facility.