Nursing Home News — Page 485

Immediate Jeopardy is the most serious classification the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services applies to a nursing home violation.

Inspectors found no sign it had been used.

When inspectors returned in January 2025, the same problems were still there.

The dates run from December 3 through February 4, clustered in ways that suggest this was not an occasional emergency but a recurring management decision.

Two of the four residents whose records inspectors reviewed had not received meetings on schedule.

The deficiency level was rated D, meaning minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with some residents affected.

Communities at Indian Haven, a nursing home in Indiana, Pennsylvania, was cited in the spring of 2024 for failing to provide accurate resident assessments.

When inspectors cite this tag, it means they found evidence that the facility's approach to medication management had broken down at more than one level.

Nearly a year later, inspectors returned.

That timing did not change what happened to the resident.

Inspectors also referenced Washington State regulation WAC 388-97-1080, subsections covering resident care requirements.

What the attendance sheets showed was a different kind of problem, one that predated her arrival and continued through it.