PIONEER NURSING HOME
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$114,520
Outcome
PIONEER NURSING HOME in VALE, OR was fined $114,520 by CMS following 8 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
PIONEER NURSING HOME (VALE, OR) — $114,520 in CMS Fines
Outcome: PIONEER NURSING HOME in VALE, OR was fined $114,520 by CMS following 8 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
- Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Conduct and document a facility-wide assessment to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations (including nights and weekends) and emergencies.
- Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
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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