SPANISH PEAKS VETERANS COMMUNITY LIVING CENTER
Outcome
SPANISH PEAKS VETERANS COMMUNITY LIVING CENTER in WALSENBURG, CO was fined $4,893 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 24 deficiency citations identified during federal surveys.
Details
SPANISH PEAKS VETERANS COMMUNITY LIVING CENTER (WALSENBURG, CO) — $4,893 in CMS Fines
Outcome: SPANISH PEAKS VETERANS COMMUNITY LIVING CENTER in WALSENBURG, CO was fined $4,893 by CMS across 2 separate penalties following 24 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.
- Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
- 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.
- Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
- Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
- Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
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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