D'Youville Senior Care
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$10,517
Outcome
D'Youville Senior Care in LOWELL, MA was fined $10,517 by CMS following 32 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
D'Youville Senior Care (LOWELL, MA) — $10,517 in CMS Fines
Outcome: D'Youville Senior Care in LOWELL, MA was fined $10,517 by CMS following 32 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Provide appropriate foot care.
- Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
- Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
- 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.
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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