CHESTNUT RIDGE POST ACUTE LLC
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$129,485
Outcome
CHESTNUT RIDGE POST ACUTE LLC in GLENDALE, CA was fined $129,485 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 66 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
CHESTNUT RIDGE POST ACUTE LLC (GLENDALE, CA) — $129,485 in CMS Fines
Outcome: CHESTNUT RIDGE POST ACUTE LLC in GLENDALE, CA was fined $129,485 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 66 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- 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.
- Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care.
- Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- 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.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Provide or obtain x-rays/tests when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.
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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