Life Care Center Of Charleston
Outcome
Life Care Center Of Charleston in N Charleston, SC was fined $24,247 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 13 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Life Care Center Of Charleston (N Charleston, SC) — $24,247 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Life Care Center Of Charleston in N Charleston, SC was fined $24,247 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 13 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
- Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition
- 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 colostomy, urostomy, or ileostomy care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
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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