Lenox Care Center
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$40,054
Outcome
Lenox Care Center in Lenox, IA was fined $40,054 by CMS following 47 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Lenox Care Center (Lenox, IA) — $40,054 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Lenox Care Center in Lenox, IA was fined $40,054 by CMS following 47 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.
- Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
- Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
- Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
- Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
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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