Autumn Care of Salisbury
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$8,738
Outcome
Autumn Care of Salisbury in Salisbury, NC was fined $8,738 by CMS following 20 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Autumn Care of Salisbury (Salisbury, NC) — $8,738 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Autumn Care of Salisbury in Salisbury, NC was fined $8,738 by CMS following 20 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
- Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
- Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
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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