ALTA VISTA REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE
Outcome
ALTA VISTA REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE in BROWNSVILLE, TX was fined $23,735 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 16 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
ALTA VISTA REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE (BROWNSVILLE, TX) — $23,735 in CMS Fines
Outcome: ALTA VISTA REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE in BROWNSVILLE, TX was fined $23,735 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 16 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
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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