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She knew exactly what she was smelling and exactly why.

The first resident was standing at the nurses' station counter near the building entrance when they asked CNA A for a snack just before 10:30 in the morning.

His most recent cognitive assessment gave him a score of 7 out of 15 on the Brief Inventory of Mental Status, a threshold that indicates cognitive impairment.

He needed help with toileting, hygiene, clothing, and cleaning himself after bowel movements before he ever arrived.

Without that documentation, there was no way to confirm the treatments had happened at all.

The inspection, completed May 27, 2026, was triggered by a complaint.

Quality Life Services Westmont had been down this road before.

That was the night of May 10, 2026.

The care plan for that resident was specific.

Both the aide and the dietary manager, standing together during an immediate interview, confirmed what inspectors had just watched.

That single email was the first notification he had received about his ward's relocation, he told inspectors.

The inspection report cited both administrators by title and measured them against the written expectations their own employer had set for them.