BRIGHTON POST ACUTE
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$7,443
Outcome
BRIGHTON POST ACUTE in HANFORD, CA was fined $7,443 by CMS following 29 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
BRIGHTON POST ACUTE (HANFORD, CA) — $7,443 in CMS Fines
Outcome: BRIGHTON POST ACUTE in HANFORD, CA was fined $7,443 by CMS following 29 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- 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.
- Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
- Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law.
- Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
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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