Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center
Outcome
Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center in Pawtucket, RI was fined $241,130 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 50 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center (Pawtucket, RI) — $241,130 in CMS Fines
Outcome: Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center in Pawtucket, RI was fined $241,130 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 50 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- 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 safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
- Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
- Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
- Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
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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