EMBASSY OF CAMBRIDGE
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$131,018
Outcome
EMBASSY OF CAMBRIDGE in CAMBRIDGE, OH was fined $131,018 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 90 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
EMBASSY OF CAMBRIDGE (CAMBRIDGE, OH) — $131,018 in CMS Fines
Outcome: EMBASSY OF CAMBRIDGE in CAMBRIDGE, OH was fined $131,018 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 90 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
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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