Countryside Health Care of Milford
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Inadequate Staffing
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$9,770
Outcome
Countryside Health Care of Milford in MILFORD, MA was fined $9,770 by CMS following 29 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Countryside Health Care of Milford (MILFORD, MA) — $9,770 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Countryside Health Care of Milford in MILFORD, MA was fined $9,770 by CMS following 29 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
- Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
- Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's 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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