Greenwood Center
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$33,121
Outcome
Greenwood Center in Warwick, RI was fined $33,121 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 36 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Greenwood Center (Warwick, RI) — $33,121 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Greenwood Center in Warwick, RI was fined $33,121 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 36 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
- Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- 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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