PROFESSIONAL POST ACUTE CENTER
Outcome
PROFESSIONAL POST ACUTE CENTER in SAN RAFAEL, CA was fined $283,454 by CMS across 5 separate penalties following 87 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
PROFESSIONAL POST ACUTE CENTER (SAN RAFAEL, CA) — $283,454 in CMS Fines
Outcome: PROFESSIONAL POST ACUTE CENTER in SAN RAFAEL, CA was fined $283,454 by CMS across 5 separate penalties following 87 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- 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.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- 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.
- 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.
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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