Nursing Home News — Page 309

The patient, identified in inspection records only as Resident 99, has a tracheostomy, the surgical opening in the throat that bypasses normal speech.

The certificate named two causes.

One of those citations targeted something foundational to nursing home care: whether the facility was accurately assessing its own residents.

Controlled substances, which require separately locked compartments under any circumstances, were part of the finding.

Federal health inspectors visited the Carroll County facility on September 25, 2025, responding to a complaint.

The citation against Core of Dale, a long-term care facility at 510 W.

The resident, identified in inspection records as R152, had a physician's order for two insulin medications to manage type two diabetes.

That decision, and a second one just like it, are now at the center of a complaint inspection that federal regulators completed in late September.

One of those citations involved infection control.

That is what federal inspectors documented at Cedar Lake Health and Rehab Center following a complaint inspection conducted September 29, 2025.

The order had been in place since August 18, 2025.

It came out the following morning.