ALTA VISTA REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE

BROWNSVILLE, TX 2023 Assisted Living / Long-Term Care
CMS Documentation Failure Immediate Jeopardy Infection Control Medication Error Resident Neglect
Penalty
$23,735

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.

Source: CMS Nursing Home Penalties Dataset — ALTA VISTA REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE

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