ABODE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER
Outcome
ABODE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER in INDEPENDENCE, MO was fined $324,208 by CMS across 34 separate penalties following 77 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
ABODE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER (INDEPENDENCE, MO) — $324,208 in CMS Fines
Outcome: ABODE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER in INDEPENDENCE, MO was fined $324,208 by CMS across 34 separate penalties following 77 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.
- Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.
- Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
- Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
How Crucible Prevents This
Crucible's continuous compliance monitoring would have flagged the regulatory gaps that led to these CMS fines — through automated survey-readiness checks, real-time deficiency tracking, staff compliance dashboards, and corrective action plan enforcement — preventing the violations before the next federal survey.
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