HERMITAGE NURSING & REHAB
CMS
Actual Harm
Infection Control
Medication Error
Penalty
$17,492
Outcome
HERMITAGE NURSING & REHAB in HERMITAGE, MO was fined $17,492 by CMS following 14 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
HERMITAGE NURSING & REHAB (HERMITAGE, MO) — $17,492 in CMS Fines
Outcome: HERMITAGE NURSING & REHAB in HERMITAGE, MO was fined $17,492 by CMS following 14 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
- Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
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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