Good Samaritan Society - Ottumwa
Outcome
Good Samaritan Society - Ottumwa in Ottumwa, IA was fined $91,569 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 37 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Good Samaritan Society - Ottumwa (Ottumwa, IA) — $91,569 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Good Samaritan Society - Ottumwa in Ottumwa, IA was fined $91,569 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 37 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
- Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
- 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.
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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