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Inspectors found the facility deficient in providing and implementing an infection prevention and control program.

The guardian, identified in inspection records only as V8, acknowledged the spending in a recorded interview on August 6.

The incident at Copper Knoll Health & Rehab LLC became the subject of a federal complaint inspection completed August 11, 2025.

Inspectors classified the violation as isolated, with no documented actual harm, but with the potential for more than minimal harm to residents.

That is the system that existed at Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, according to a federal inspection completed August 11, 2025.

One of those deficiencies was the pest control program.

The finding was one of 11 deficiencies cited during the complaint inspection.

Legionella is a bacterium that thrives in water systems, particularly in the kind of large, complex plumbing found in institutional buildings.

Federal inspectors cited the facility following a complaint investigation completed August 11, 2025.

The program itself, the one meant to protect residents from preventable infections, was not being carried out.

The cited violation falls under the category of nutrition and dietary deficiencies.

That was the finding when federal inspectors visited High Plains Post Acute LLC on West Abriendo Avenue in August 2025, following a complaint.