August Healthcare at Wilmington
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$27,378
Outcome
August Healthcare at Wilmington in Wilmington, NC was fined $27,378 by CMS following 35 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
August Healthcare at Wilmington (Wilmington, NC) — $27,378 in CMS Fines
Outcome: August Healthcare at Wilmington in Wilmington, NC was fined $27,378 by CMS following 35 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.
- 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.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
- Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
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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