Polaris Rehabilitation And Care Center
2700 E 12th Street, Cheyenne, WY, 82001 · CCN 535025
Polaris Rehabilitation And Care Center is a CMS-certified skilled nursing facility located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. This facility-specific record brings together official CMS provider, inspection, rating, and enforcement data while identifying what is missing or uncertain.
What stands out in the available record
The available records contain 37 cited deficiencies across 10 surveys. 3 were coded at G or above; 0 were coded at immediate-jeopardy levels J through L.
5 of the most frequently cited tags appear more than once in the available history: F0880 (3), F0677 (2), F0689 (2), F0732 (2), F0725 (2). Repetition can indicate a recurring compliance area, but it is not proof that the same underlying problem remained uncorrected.
Survey history
- January 2026 — Health: 8 cited deficiencies
- November 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- October 2025 — Health: 7 cited deficiencies
- August 2025 — Health: 3 cited deficiencies
- August 2025 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
- October 2024 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
- August 2024 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- June 2024 — Health: 6 cited deficiencies
Scope and severity distribution
- Scope/severity B: 1 citation
- Scope/severity D: 22 citations
- Scope/severity E: 8 citations
- Scope/severity F: 3 citations
- Scope/severity G: 3 citations
3 available citations were coded at G or above, indicating actual harm or immediate jeopardy; 0 were coded J or above.
Top Deficiency Citations
- F0880 — Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (3 citations)
- F0677 — Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2 citations)
- F0689 — Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2 citations)
- F0732 — Post nurse staffing information every day. (2 citations)
- F0725 — Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. (2 citations)
Deficiency categories
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies: 9 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies: 5 citations
- Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies: 5 citations
- Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies: 4 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies: 4 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies: 4 citations
Official CMS Five-Star context
- Overall: 1 of 5 stars
- Health inspection: 1 of 5 stars
- Staffing: 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measure: 3 of 5 stars
CMS reports 3.49 total nurse staffing hours per resident day.
Five-Star values above are official CMS fields. POCDesk does not calculate or predict the official CMS rating.
Enforcement and penalties
The available CMS enforcement dataset contains 1 penalty action, most recently dated August 2025. Monetary fines in these records total $62,647.
Sources, freshness, and limitations
Source: official CMS datasets, including Provider Information, Health Deficiencies, and Penalties. View the CMS data source. Loaded survey records window — Earliest loaded survey: June 2023; Latest loaded survey: January 2026. These dates describe records loaded by POCDesk, not a CMS release or publication timestamp. Facility statistics refreshed: October 8, 2026 at 9:48 AM UTC. The available rating record has a CMS processing date of September 2026. POCDesk last refreshed that rating record on October 2026.
POCDesk groups citations by survey date, counts recurring F-Tags across the available history, and summarizes CMS scope/severity codes. Those summaries are POCDesk organization and interpretation of public records, not official ratings or survey findings of our own. Read the governing 42 CFR Part 483 and our editorial standards and methodology.
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