SOUTHWIND AT SPEARVILLE
CMS
Documentation Failure
Immediate Jeopardy
Inadequate Staffing
Medication Error
Resident Neglect
Penalty
$7,446
Outcome
SOUTHWIND AT SPEARVILLE in SPEARVILLE, KS was fined $7,446 by CMS following 14 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
SOUTHWIND AT SPEARVILLE (SPEARVILLE, KS) — $7,446 in CMS Fines
Outcome: SOUTHWIND AT SPEARVILLE in SPEARVILLE, KS was fined $7,446 by CMS following 14 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Provide appropriate colostomy, urostomy, or ileostomy care/services for a resident who requires such services.
- 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.
- Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.
- Provide a neutral and fair arbitration process and agree to arbitrator and venue.
- Not hire anyone with a finding of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or theft.
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.
Don't let this happen to your organization. See how Crucible works.
See How Crucible Works