SPACE COAST HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER
Outcome
SPACE COAST HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER in MERRITT ISLAND, FL was fined $128,889 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 42 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
SPACE COAST HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER (MERRITT ISLAND, FL) — $128,889 in CMS Fines
Outcome: SPACE COAST HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER in MERRITT ISLAND, FL was fined $128,889 by CMS across 4 separate penalties following 42 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Deficiency areas cited:
- 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.
- Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
- Provide doctor's orders for the resident's immediate care at the time the resident was admitted.
- 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.
- Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
- Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
- Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
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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