LACEY POST ACUTE & REHABILITATION
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Penalty
$7,443
Outcome
LACEY POST ACUTE & REHABILITATION in LACEY, WA was fined $7,443 by CMS following 36 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
LACEY POST ACUTE & REHABILITATION (LACEY, WA) — $7,443 in CMS Fines
Outcome: LACEY POST ACUTE & REHABILITATION in LACEY, WA was fined $7,443 by CMS following 36 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident's needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge.
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- 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 fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
- Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.
- 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.
- Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.
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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