ANCHOR LODGE NURSING HOME INC
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Wound Care
Penalty
$37,585
Outcome
ANCHOR LODGE NURSING HOME INC in LORAIN, OH was fined $37,585 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 35 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
ANCHOR LODGE NURSING HOME INC (LORAIN, OH) — $37,585 in CMS Fines
Outcome: ANCHOR LODGE NURSING HOME INC in LORAIN, OH was fined $37,585 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 35 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
- 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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