Fort Worth Transitional Care Center
Outcome
Fort Worth Transitional Care Center in Fort Worth, TX was fined $33,557 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 52 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Fort Worth Transitional Care Center (Fort Worth, TX) — $33,557 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Fort Worth Transitional Care Center in Fort Worth, TX was fined $33,557 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 52 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
- Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
- Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
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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