Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Outcome
Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brownsville, TX was fined $62,347 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 42 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (Brownsville, TX) — $62,347 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brownsville, TX was fined $62,347 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 42 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- 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.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- 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.
- Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
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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