Pacific Care Nursing Center
CMS
Actual Harm
Documentation Failure
Infection Control
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Wound Care
Penalty
$100,013
Outcome
Pacific Care Nursing Center in Long Beach, CA was fined $100,013 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 66 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Pacific Care Nursing Center (Long Beach, CA) — $100,013 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Pacific Care Nursing Center in Long Beach, CA was fined $100,013 by CMS across 3 separate penalties following 66 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.
- Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
- Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
- 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.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
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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