BRIGHTON GARDENS OF EDISON
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$33,374
Outcome
BRIGHTON GARDENS OF EDISON in EDISON, NJ was fined $33,374 by CMS following 17 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
BRIGHTON GARDENS OF EDISON (EDISON, NJ) — $33,374 in CMS Fines
Outcome: BRIGHTON GARDENS OF EDISON in EDISON, NJ was fined $33,374 by CMS following 17 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
- Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- 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 be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
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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