Medicalodges Great Bend
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Infection Control
Medication Error
Nutrition Care
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$59,762
Outcome
Medicalodges Great Bend in GREAT BEND, KS was fined $59,762 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 43 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Medicalodges Great Bend (GREAT BEND, KS) — $59,762 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Medicalodges Great Bend in GREAT BEND, KS was fined $59,762 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 43 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
- Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
- Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
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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